Tessa Sokol
Optometrist · Madison, WINPI 1073706529
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 96.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among optometrist clinicians in WI 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 308 payments — averaging $340.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$101K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- LKC Technologies, Inc.$219
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$184
- AbbVie$162
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$149
- plus $414 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$51,39349%
- Speaking & faculty fees$26,11525%
- Travel & lodging$20,97120%
- Food & beverage$6,2566%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 283 | $101,292 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 7 | $2,332 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $184 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $149 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $143 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $37 |
| The Cameron-ehlen Group, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, 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.
- TOTAL30$55,445
- DAILIES TOTAL1$36,235
- Precision 1$28,222
- Precision7$10,646
- Precision 7$6,731
- Pataday$6,238
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$2,219
- AIR OPTIX Aqua$1,279
- DAILIES$467
- AIR OPTIX$334
- ULTRA$145
- Tobradex ST$143
- Acuvue$115
- MIEBO$100
- VUITY$100
How this compares
$104,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 867 optometrist providers in Wisconsin.
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 Madison
- David NelsonMadison$256K
- Jayson HeierMadison$4K
- Lisa ZarwellMadison$4K
- Jennifer FrieheMukwonago$234K
- Christopher LopezClintonville$48K
- Jeff BanasMount Pleasant$46K
- Jessica SchiffbauerKenosha$27K
- Jeffrey ClementsSun Prairie$16K
- Douglas HinsonSturtevant$15K
- Marcus NeitzkeWaukesha$14K
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.