Steven Blake
Optometrist · St George, UTNPI 1831555010
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.2%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 50.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,232 and has fallen 87.4% since, to $281 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in UT 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 146 payments — averaging $61.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$277
- AbbVie$275
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$148
- plus $394 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$93010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,56340%
- Travel & lodging$85610%
- Food & beverage$3,61340%
- Entertainment$230%
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. | 46 | $4,554 |
| Alcon | 61 | $2,283 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 8 | $1,055 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $277 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $275 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $148 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $109 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$2,539
- MyDay Contact Lens$1,244
- DAILIES$1,230
- Acuvue$885
- AIR OPTIX$618
- INFUSE$250
- RESTASIS$129
- Precision 1$126
- LUMIGAN$122
- Precision7$115
How this compares
$8,984 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 423 optometrist providers in Utah.
Other optometrist in St George
- Michael CroftSt George$10K
- Stephen ReinhartHill Afb$134K
- Robert WooldridgeMurray$69K
- Ian WhippleFarr West$60K
- Rhett VeaterWest Jordan$52K
- Jonathan KingSouth Ogden$42K
- Collin GrayLehi$30K
- Sean CushmanSalt Lake City$25K
- Brian RowleyPayson$15K
- Michael HillMurray$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.