RxDoctor Payments Data

Ryan Stybel

Optometrist · Los Angeles, CANPI 1811145451

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,664in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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.

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.

How this compares

$7,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.

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