Wendy Shem
Optometrist · Pasadena, CANPI 1821050162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,028 of the $6,355 with a category attached, or 63.4%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Topcon Healthcare, Inc. at 26.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,858 and has fallen 72.0% since, to $799 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 80 payments — averaging $79.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Optos, Inc.$865
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$639
- Glaukos Corporation$362
- Alcon$340
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$200%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00016%
- Travel & lodging$5439%
- Food & beverage$4,02863%
- Gifts$190%
- Entertainment$74412%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 4 | $1,654 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 25 | $1,186 |
| Optos, Inc. | 11 | $865 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $639 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $362 |
| Alcon | 7 | $340 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $266 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 2 | $182 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $157 |
| Visionix USA, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $92 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 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.
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$1,175
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$1,063
- NFC-700$587
- INFUSE$400
- TOTAL30$255
- DAILIES TOTAL1$255
- Precision 1$255
- Clariti Contact Lens$239
- KXL System$181
- KXL1B-CE-marked KXLsystem$181
- OCT$155
- AdaptDx$154
- ALDEN SCLERAL ZENLENS$131
- MIEBO$125
- XIIDRA$125
- TYRVAYA$125
- MyDay Contact Lens$114
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$110
How this compares
$6,355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Pasadena
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.