RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephanie Lyons

Optometrist · Chicago, ILNPI 1104056191

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,350 of the $4,538 with a category attached, or 73.8%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 43.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,919 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $130 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in IL 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.

$4,538in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $129.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
  • Coopervision Inc.$2K
  • Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$350
  • ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$190
  • AbbVie$125
  • Optovue, Inc.$56
  • plus $78 from 3 others
$10,885in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $1814.17 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Coopervision Inc.$11K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3608%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,35074%
  • Food & beverage$80818%
  • Gifts$190%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$4,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,624
Medicare patients
37
Services billed
55

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.

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