Steve Yoelin
Optometrist · Newport Beach, CANPI 1710180781
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,712,509 of the $4,096,858 with a category attached, or 66.2%. AbbVie accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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.
Across 3,161 payments — averaging $1296.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4.1M
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$11K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$9K
- Merz North America, Inc.$8K
- Botanix SB Inc$1K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$102
- plus $30 from 1 others
Across 195 payments — averaging $10,849 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$1.6M
- Merz North America, Inc.$420K
- Krystal Biotech Inc$77K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$60K
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) | 3,043 | $4,067,747 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 52 | $10,759 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $8,898 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 48 | $8,321 |
| 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
$4,096,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Newport Beach
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
- Heidi PhamSacramento$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.