Scott Garbowitz
Optometrist · Nanuet, NYNPI 1265653174
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $4,343 of the $5,082 with a category attached, or 85.5%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,715 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $58 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 51 payments — averaging $99.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
- Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$158
- Alcon$155
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$55
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$51
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$18
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,34385%
- Food & beverage$72114%
- Education$180%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 29 | $4,633 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $158 |
| Alcon | 8 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MyDay Contact Lens$3,137
- Clariti Contact Lens$1,206
How this compares
$5,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 25 | $1,693 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Nanuet
- Roy KlineLake Katrine$822K
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Murray FingeretHewlett$374K
- Albert MorierSlingerlands$347K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Justin BazanBrooklyn$303K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Alexander KabiriQueens Village$268K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
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.