Sarah Shim
Optometrist · Dalton, GANPI 1598070955
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $27.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$792
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$623
- Alcon$587
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$457
- Coopervision Inc.$282
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$186
- plus $634 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,550100%
- Education$110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 31 | $792 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 20 | $623 |
| Alcon | 31 | $587 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $457 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $282 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $186 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $170 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Novartis | 4 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Oasis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Acuvue$250
- MIEBO$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$109
How this compares
$3,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,285 optometrist providers in Georgia.
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 | 57 | $52,767 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 35 | $27,707 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 55 | $22,225 |
| Cyclosporine | 37 | $17,503 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 19 | $12,853 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 18 | $7,824 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 12 | $6,894 |
| Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate | 21 | $5,510 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 21 | $4,461 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 45 | $2,825 |
| Latanoprost | 239 | $2,436 |
| Fluorometholone | 15 | $1,010 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 58 | $775 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 19 | $635 |
| Timolol Maleate | 71 | $631 |
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, Alphagan P, Combigan | $170 | $87,278151 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo, Xiidra | $792 | $40,56054 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan | $98 | $6,89412 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLotemax Sm | $457 | $5,51021 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 80th percentile of 1,285 optometrist providers in Georgia.
Other optometrist in Dalton
- Anne BrobstDuluth$1.2M
- Michael HungCumming$1.2M
- Joshua JohnstonAtlanta$997K
- John WomackCanton$931K
- David WinnerRoswell$877K
- Lauren HackerGreensboro$511K
- Katherine WooAtlanta$336K
- Naheed AhmadRoswell$296K
- Stephanie RossAtlanta$283K
- Scott MoscowRoswell$278K
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.