Steve Yoelin
Optometrist · Newport Beach, CANPI 1710180781
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 3,338 payments — averaging $1832.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$5.5M
- Merz North America, Inc.$428K
- Krystal Biotech Inc$77K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$69K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$11K
- Botanix SB Inc$1K
- plus $132 from 2 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $5366.60 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.
- AbbVie$97K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,076,08726%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,712,50966%
- Travel & lodging$251,0716%
- Food & beverage$56,6081%
- Education$5840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3,170 | $5,529,292 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 81 | $428,179 |
| Krystal Biotech Inc | 2 | $77,350 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 27 | $69,187 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 52 | $10,759 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $1,000 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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
$6,115,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Newport Beach
- Meng LinBerkeley$6.9M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- David Kasanoffla Mesa$1M
- Colton HeinrichFullerton$987K
- Elsa PaoOakland$910K
- Keith WanSan Diego$887K
- Selena ChanSan Francisco$677K
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jennifer ChinLos Angeles$452K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.