Stephen Nichols
Optometrist · Overland Park, KSNPI 1568459469
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $20.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$219
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$147
- Coopervision Inc.$126
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$99
- Amgen$88
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$84
- plus $580 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,18288%
- Education$13010%
- Other$312%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 10 | $219 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $147 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $126 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $99 |
| Amgen | 5 | $88 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Alcon | 5 | $79 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Novartis | 3 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $32 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lumenis, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,343 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 567 optometrist providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 115 | $126,795 |
| Cyclosporine | 54 | $32,735 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 20 | $24,605 |
| AlrexLoteprednol Etabonate | 13 | $3,648 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 88 | $3,363 |
| Fluorometholone | 42 | $2,618 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 69 | $2,336 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 131 | $1,255 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 13 | $900 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 97 | $878 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $671 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 18 | $508 |
| Latanoprost | 39 | $348 |
| Azithromycin | 73 | $251 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis | $32 | $126,795115 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $147 | $24,60520 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCAlrex, Loteprednol Etabonate | $99 | $4,54726 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 70th percentile of 567 optometrist providers in Kansas.
Other optometrist in Overland Park
- Vincent PennipedeOverland Park$16K
- Mark SiefkesOverland Park$11K
- Katherine PainterOverland Park$7K
- Jared JaynesOverland Park$5K
- Anthony BrandOverland Park$5K
- Jay BurlingameOverland Park$5K
- Neal EylarOverland Park$5K
- Dawn BircherOverland Park$4K
- Liron BittanOverland Park$4K
- L BeslerOverland Park$4K
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.