Has William Ratcliff, OD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,659 in general payments to William Ratcliff, OD across 101 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 William Ratcliff, OD 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 William Ratcliff, OD 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.

William Ratcliff, OD

Optometrist · Huntington, WVNPI 1962528539

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 101 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 40.7% of the total.

$4,659in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $46.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
Alcon$713
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$578
Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$343
Coopervision Inc.$255
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$218
plus $658 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,659100%

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	44	$1,894
Alcon	10	$713
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	17	$578
Topcon Healthcare, Inc.	2	$343
Coopervision Inc.	3	$255
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	10	$218
Dompe US, Inc.	3	$174
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$123
LKC Technologies, Inc.	1	$105
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	1	$63
Maculogix, Inc.	1	$47
Novartis	2	$47
Optos, Inc.	2	$39
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	1	$24
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$19
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15

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

$4,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 210 optometrist providers in West Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$50,080

Medicare patients

309

Services billed

3,745

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
RestasisCyclosporine	42	$35,589
Brimonidine Tartrate	22	$3,083
Latanoprost	177	$2,404
Dorzolamide Hcl	101	$1,729
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	31	$777
Timolol Maleate	55	$648
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	46	$581
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	48	$528

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Huntington

Jennifer StevensHuntington$8K
Chris RatcliffHuntington$5K
Alvin GinierHuntington$4K
Gregory MooreBuckhannon$28K
Steven PotwinSaint Albans$24K
Kayla CampbellBarboursville$16K
Lee MooreCharles Town$10K
Jill ShowalterVienna$10K
Bryce PeekBarboursville$8K
James FickClarksburg$8K

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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.

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