Samantha Ward
Optometrist · Wake Forest, NCNPI 1497916068
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.5% of the total across 325 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among optometrist clinicians in NC 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 325 payments — averaging $33.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$2K
- AbbVie$918
- Shire North American Group Inc$900
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$794
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$760
- plus $4K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9008%
- Food & beverage$9,92492%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 47 | $2,239 |
| Alcon | 39 | $1,705 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 37 | $918 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $900 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 20 | $794 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 49 | $760 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 26 | $630 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $625 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 23 | $508 |
| Novartis | 32 | $453 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 9 | $319 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $241 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 9 | $204 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $150 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $150 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XIIDRA$900
- optilight$625
- Acuvue$480
- Precision 1$229
- Precision7$159
- TRYPTYR$150
- DAILIES TOTAL1$130
- TYRVAYA$125
- INFUSE$125
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$125
- MIEBO$125
- EYSUVIS$122
- ZYLET$117
- Oxervate$115
- ULTRA$114
- TOTAL30$112
- RESTASIS$110
How this compares
$10,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 130 | $167,725 |
| Cyclosporine | 16 | $12,974 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 17 | $11,127 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 24 | $10,229 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 20 | $7,006 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 178 | $5,600 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 24 | $5,104 |
| Latanoprost | 222 | $2,282 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 32 | $625 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $599 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 35 | $374 |
| Timolol Maleate | 40 | $353 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 15 | $307 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 11 | $306 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 15 | $147 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan | $918 | $177,954154 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $630 | $11,12717 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan | $30 | $7,00620 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $1,705 | $5,10424 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
Other optometrist in Wake Forest
- Jason PriceWake Forest$72K
- Joanna ReimanWake Forest$55K
- Chad MorganWake Forest$18K
- Kimberly DouglasWake Forest$9K
- Lee McPhersonWake Forest$9K
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Ryan CorteAsheville$569K
- Sanjay PatelApex$518K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.