Has Todd Yackels received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,717 in general payments to Todd Yackels across 210 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Todd Yackels did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Todd Yackels come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Todd Yackels

Optometrist · Milwaukee, WINPI 1235190109

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,900 of the $9,717 with a category attached, or 81.3%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,919 and has fallen 74.5% since, to $744 in 2025. 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.

$9,717in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 210 payments — averaging $46.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Coopervision Inc.$3K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
Alcon$1K
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$577
Astellas Pharma US Inc$88
plus $72 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,81719%
Food & beverage$7,90081%

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
Coopervision Inc.	45	$3,368
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	68	$2,444
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	41	$1,736
Alcon	41	$1,432
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	12	$577
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$88
Glaukos Corporation	1	$53
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$19

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.

How this compares

$9,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 867 optometrist providers in Wisconsin.

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Other optometrist in Milwaukee

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John ContoMilwaukee$4K
Anna HetzerMilwaukee$4K
David NelsonMadison$256K
Jennifer FrieheMukwonago$234K
Tessa SokolMadison$105K
Christopher LopezClintonville$48K
Jeff BanasMount Pleasant$46K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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