Victoria Chin
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1184738536
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 442 payments — averaging $37.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$2K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$2K
- The Walman Optical Company$1K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$952
- plus $5K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7505%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1881%
- Travel & lodging$7735%
- Food & beverage$13,61482%
- Education$180%
- Gifts$1,1607%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 147 | $3,767 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 23 | $2,179 |
| Alcon | 42 | $2,096 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 59 | $1,537 |
| The Walman Optical Company | 3 | $1,160 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 18 | $952 |
| Novartis | 28 | $609 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 22 | $583 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $530 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $459 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 10 | $444 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 9 | $401 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 3 | $264 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 5 | $261 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $240 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $232 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $212 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 4 | $103 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $82 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $58 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Quidel Corporation | 3 | $45 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $43 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Topcon Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Optimum Extra$800
- DURYSTA$610
- Prokera$526
- AmnioGraft$526
- DAILIES$393
- Wavelight Refractive Suite$387
- CEQUA$363
- ATLANTIS$360
- TEPEZZA$266
- Oxervate$250
- VUITY$228
- TYRVAYA$228
- RESTASIS MULTIDOSE$210
- Wavelight$154
- AmnioGuard$146
- XDEMVY$145
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$136
- Zerviate$134
- MIEBO$125
- RESTASIS$124
How this compares
$16,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XdemvyLotilaner | 51 | $93,034 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 24 | $27,736 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 18 | $18,193 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 27 | $17,144 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 19 | $12,283 |
| CequaCyclosporine | 17 | $11,160 |
| Cyclosporine | 18 | $8,993 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 19 | $4,754 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 17 | $4,532 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 11 | $3,633 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 79 | $3,449 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 11 | $1,546 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 60 | $1,202 |
| Latanoprost | 59 | $468 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 23 | $317 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy | $2,179 | $93,03451 claims |
| AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan, Combigan | $3,767 | $44,77362 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $583 | $18,19318 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $530 | $17,14427 claims |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa | $1,537 | $11,16017 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa | $46 | $3,63311 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate | $212 | $1,54611 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Kathryn RichdaleHouston$288K
- Nancy StephensHouston$241K
- Jelita Green-DathorneHouston$232K
- Eric RitcheyHouston$151K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
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.