Has Sarah Thompson received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,640 in general payments to Sarah Thompson across 79 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sarah Thompson did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sarah Thompson come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sarah Thompson

Optometrist · Aurora, CONPI 1114977436

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.2% of the total across 79 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 30.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $618 and has fallen 75.6% since, to $151 in 2025.

$2,640in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $33.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$799
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$528
Coopervision Inc.$460
Notal Vision, Inc.$178
Ivantis, Inc$159
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$144
plus $372 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1787%
Food & beverage$2,46193%

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	19	$799
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	33	$528
Coopervision Inc.	5	$460
Notal Vision, Inc.	3	$178
Ivantis, Inc	1	$159
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$144
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	3	$93
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	4	$85
Novartis	2	$51
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$28
AbbVie	1	$26
Glaukos Corporation	1	$25
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$25
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Philips North America LLC	1	$15
ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC	1	$7

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

$2,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,025 optometrist providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$7,846

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Latanoprost	17	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Aurora

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Brittany WrightAurora$27K
Jennifer RedmondAurora$5K
Joshua OlsonBoulder$80K
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Lisa HamiltonLittleton$73K
Kent GodfreyGreenwood Village$49K
Jason OrtmanCastle Pines$45K
Scott GundersonBroomfield$43K

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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.

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