Wyatt Nash-Keller
Optometrist · Brookings, SDNPI 1124371992
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $683 of the $1,113 with a category attached, or 61.4%. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $509 and has fallen 65.9% since, to $173 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $30.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$674
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$154
- Coopervision Inc.$101
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$54
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$43
- Alcon$33
- plus $52 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $108.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$109
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41037%
- Food & beverage$68361%
- Gifts$192%
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. | 14 | $674 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $154 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Alcon | 2 | $33 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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$410
How this compares
$1,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 206 optometrist providers in South Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 16 | $6,227 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 18 | $670 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 24 | $282 |
| Latanoprost | 51 | $239 |
| Timolol Maleate | 20 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Brookings
- Taylor KneipBrookings$1K
- Justin SchweitzerSioux Falls$753K
- Mitchel IbachSioux Falls$395K
- Jason SchmitSioux Falls$79K
- Darren DohmanAberdeen$22K
- Jeffery SaylerSioux Falls$8K
- Jerika KirwanWagner$6K
- Kayla KarpukSioux Falls$6K
- Steven FergusonDakota Dunes$6K
- Travis LehrSioux Falls$5K
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.