Has Smith Blanc received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,047 in general payments to Smith Blanc across 85 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 Smith Blanc 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 Smith Blanc 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.

Smith Blanc

Optometrist · Hialeah, FLNPI 1053644666

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,047in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $71.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$757
Coopervision Inc.$605
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$555
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$412
AbbVie$284
plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1252%
Food & beverage$5,92398%

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.	36	$1,676
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	7	$757
Coopervision Inc.	9	$605
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$555
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$412
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$284
Maculogix, Inc.	2	$242
NEW World Medical,inc.	2	$211
Glaukos Corporation	1	$174
Optovue, Inc.	2	$154
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
Dompe US, Inc.	1	$122
Amgen	1	$119
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$119
Alcon	2	$105
Visionix USA, Inc	1	$100
Optos, Inc.	1	$98
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	2	$98
LKC Technologies, Inc.	1	$90

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

$6,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Tobramycin	46	$468
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	11	$232
Latanoprost	18	$220
Timolol Maleate	14	$207

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Hialeah

Michael KynnJacksonville$4.5M
Christine HalodaJacksonville$3.1M
Bradley GieddWinter Park$2.5M
Christopher PearsonLongwood$2.5M
Mark PerryOrlando$1.6M
Bryan StamJacksonville Beach$1M
Oksana SovaJacksonville$841K
James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
April JasperWest Palm Beach$781K
Jerry RobbenSt Augustine$663K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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