Stephen Edwards
Optometrist · Water Valley, MSNPI 1013015585
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,998 of the $3,087 with a category attached, or 64.7%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 34.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,444, 6.5 times the $223 reported in 2019.
Across 32 payments — averaging $96.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Alcon$551
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$343
- Glaukos Corporation$289
- AbbVie$208
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$135
- plus $484 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00032%
- Food & beverage$1,99865%
- Entertainment$893%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $1,077 |
| Alcon | 8 | $551 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 4 | $343 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $289 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $208 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$1,000
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$250
- iDoseTR$145
- DEXYCU$135
- TOTAL30$119
How this compares
$3,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 372 optometrist providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 109 | $38,338 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 26 | $8,991 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 24 | $8,246 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 17 | $4,954 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 140 | $2,454 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 61 | $2,216 |
| Latanoprost | 315 | $2,177 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 35 | $644 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 48 | $512 |
| Timolol Maleate | 46 | $363 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 24 | $330 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 20 | $244 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Combigan, Alphagan P | $208 | $52,283152 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 372 optometrist providers in Mississippi.
Other optometrist in Water Valley
- Hunter EdwardsWater Valley$4K
- Taylor EdwardsWater Valley$4K
- Kristopher MayColdwater$229K
- Alyssa MabrySenatobia$66K
- Roya AttarJackson$19K
- Deandre CarrByram$9K
- Michael ObrienSouthaven$9K
- George MarchbanksGulfport$9K
- William ArnoldMadison$9K
- Ramonica LewisClinton$8K
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.