Steven Vachula, OD
Optometrist · Amherst, MANPI 1932183241
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,080 of the $2,795 with a category attached, or 74.4%. Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC accounts for 74.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,141 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $157 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MA 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 40 payments — averaging $69.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$164
- Coopervision Inc.$139
- Alcon$135
- Novartis$102
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$86
- plus $88 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,08074%
- Food & beverage$71526%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $2,080 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 10 | $164 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Alcon | 2 | $135 |
| Novartis | 6 | $102 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- BIOTRUE$1,568
- ULTRA$1,568
- Precision7$119
- MyDay Contact Lens$114
How this compares
$2,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,084 optometrist providers in Massachusetts.
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.
Other optometrist in Amherst
- Donald KorbBoston$373K
- Jaclyn GarlichBoston$162K
- Jessica CrookerScituate$99K
- Micaela CrowleyWestminster$88K
- Kristen BrownBoston$87K
- Timothy BossieBoston$75K
- Sabrina GaanMedfield$66K
- Blair O'ReillyDedham$43K
- John MagalhaesN Dartmouth$40K
- Anita GulmiriBrookline$28K
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.