Optometrist in AE
17 providers, $11,909 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays optometrist clinicians in AE
Across 2 optometrist clinicians in AE who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $24,471 in total — an average of $12,236 each, of which $12,236 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Diana PustApo$5,322
- 2Elizabeth FahyApo$1,634
- 3Cam-Van le CarrellApo$1,154
- 4Michael TommolinoApo$1,109
- 5Claire SchmidtApo$643
- 6Clarence VeselyApo$453
- 7Jared NelsonApo$334
- 8Alan CantrellFpo$265
- 9Christopher AlferezApo$180
- 10John BradleyApo$176
- 11Sarah GanzApo$150
- 12Antione BarnettApo$122
- 13Thomas DamianiApo$117
- 14le AndrusApo$112
- 15Micah KinneyFpo$56
- 16Michael HallApo$52
- 17Jewearly KhoApo$32