Steven Bilon
Optometrist · Charlotte, NCNPI 1750497301
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,835 of the $6,723 with a category attached, or 71.9%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 45.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,487 and has fallen 63.0% since, to $920 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 94 payments — averaging $71.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$3K
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$726
- Coopervision Inc.$572
- Optos, Inc.$218
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$214
- plus $779 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,67025%
- Food & beverage$4,83572%
- Entertainment$2183%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 20 | $3,061 |
| Alcon | 16 | $1,153 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 19 | $726 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $572 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $218 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $214 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $207 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Novartis | 6 | $131 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $107 |
| Amgen | 2 | $103 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Acuvue$2,079
- TOTAL30$631
- Precision 1$358
- MyDay Contact Lens$345
- INFUSE$334
- DAILIES TOTAL1$254
- P200DTx$208
- P200T$208
- P200TE$208
- P200TxE$208
- Hydrus Microstent$146
- Prokera$132
- AmnioGraft$132
- MIEBO$123
- Precision7$121
- DAILIES$109
- Clariti Contact Lens$105
How this compares
$6,723 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
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 | 84 | $827 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 13 | $619 |
| Timolol Maleate | 24 | $182 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Charlotte
- David WichnoskiCharlotte$109K
- Scott PhilippeCharlotte$87K
- Norman MeltonCharlotte$86K
- Paula NewsomeCharlotte$16K
- Charles KnudsonCharlotte$16K
- Michael JohnsonCharlotte$13K
- Priya ShethCharlotte$11K
- Spencer MooreCharlotte$9K
- Marc JamesCharlotte$8K
- Courtney DryerCharlotte$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.