Thomas Lambert
Optometrist · St Petersburg, FLNPI 1780104273
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,354 of the $9,615 with a category attached, or 66.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 43.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,873 and has fallen 72.0% since, to $803 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in FL 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 113 payments — averaging $85.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$4K
- Alcon$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$585
- AbbVie$473
- Amgen$362
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$336
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,60517%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1041%
- Travel & lodging$1,42315%
- Food & beverage$6,35466%
- Entertainment$1301%
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. | 38 | $4,183 |
| Alcon | 28 | $2,054 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 10 | $585 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $473 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $362 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $336 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $253 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $112 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $59 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $51 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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$3,508
- DAILIES$1,222
- AIR OPTIX$649
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$260
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$260
- TEPEZZA$242
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$241
- XDEMVY$221
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$210
- NFC-700$130
- Voyager DSLT$129
- Hydrus Microstent$129
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$128
- ULTRA$128
- VUITY$125
- INFUSE$124
- EYSUVIS$122
- TOTAL30$119
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$116
- TRYPTYR$112
How this compares
$9,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 18 | $359 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in St Petersburg
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
- Robert DavisPembroke Pines$217K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.