Ryan Stybel
Optometrist · Los Angeles, CANPI 1811145451
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,219 of the $7,664 with a category attached, or 68.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 33.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,929 and has fallen 51.6% since, to $933 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 229 payments — averaging $33.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$288
- Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$269
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$231
- plus $784 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6258%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,75023%
- Food & beverage$5,21968%
- Entertainment$701%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 76 | $2,565 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 54 | $1,922 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 62 | $1,606 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 6 | $288 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $269 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 5 | $231 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $205 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 7 | $160 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $87 |
| Optos, Inc. | 6 | $87 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $54 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $33 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Heru, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- DAILIES$1,000
- DAILIES TOTAL1$500
- Precision 1$500
- MyDay Contact Lens$284
- optilight$205
- Acuvue$175
- Prokera$121
- Clariti Contact Lens$104
How this compares
$7,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Los Angeles
- Cindy WuLos Angeles$136K
- Bogard ChangLos Angeles$53K
- Marian MasoudLos Angeles$36K
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.