Optometrist in AP
15 providers, $5,395 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 AP
Across 2 optometrist clinicians in AP who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $47,832 in total — an average of $23,916 each, of which $23,916 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
- 1Steve HuynhApo$1,335
- 2Skylar WilliamsFpo$885
- 3Alina WheelerApo$520
- 4Nicholas HardgraveApo$510
- 5Daniel GalleApo$470
- 6Jessica JacksonFpo$410
- 7Lewis BruneelApo$253
- 8Timothy SohApo$240
- 9Stephen SimpsonApo$237
- 10Todd ChristensenApo$135
- 11Richard YangApo$135
- 12Nicole NowlingApo$122
- 13Cyrus RadFpo$109
- 14Caitlin QuevillonFpo$19
- 15Torin CarverApo$16