Stephen Baer
Optometrist · Hummelstown, PANPI 1548354111
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 148 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,061 and has fallen 52.0% since, to $509 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $25.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$758
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$385
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$384
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$380
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$364
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$362
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,714100%
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 | 42 | $758 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 11 | $385 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $384 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 16 | $380 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $364 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 11 | $362 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 16 | $269 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $152 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $140 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $139 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Novartis | 4 | $75 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Prokera$247
- INFUSE$234
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$125
- AmnioGraft$122
- AmnioGuard$122
- XDEMVY$101
How this compares
$3,714 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 68 | $912 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 21 | $673 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 14 | $493 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 13 | $248 |
| Timolol Maleate | 21 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Hummelstown
- Gary KirmanHummelstown$39K
- James DeomHazle Township$793K
- Gregory CaldwellDuncansville$547K
- Leslie O DellNew Freedom$388K
- Kevin BistlinePlymouth Meeting$302K
- Thomas KislanStroudsburg$266K
- Erick HendersonPittsburgh$266K
- Ryan YealyLancaster$164K
- Joseph SmayNew Kensington$147K
- Julie McLaughlinAllentown$142K
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.