Optometrist in Indiana
1,318 providers, $3,795,438 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $555.
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 Indiana
Across 874 optometrist clinicians in Indiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $38,379,922 in total — an average of $43,913 each, of which $43,913 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
- 1Damon DierkerIndianapolis$706,915
- 2Jason JedlickaBloomington$456,053
- 3Kari RiinaFishers$307,612
- 4Rhonda RobinsonIndianapolis$205,045
- 5John CzajaMerrillville$188,742
- 6Peter KollbaumBloomington$59,932
- 7Ryan GustusBluffton$47,910
- 8Steve VargoHighland$47,692
- 9Helen TzanetakosMunster$46,846
- 10Nicholas McColleyGreenfield$38,422
- 11Brenda WahlIndianapolis$38,358
- 12Kevin SmithFishers$35,772
- 13Natalie Corey TangenWestfield$29,969
- 14Christopher BrowningGreenwood$28,380
- 15Ann MaddenWarsaw$23,529
- 16Stephen KimmellLafayette$20,018
- 17Matthew WeinheimerAvon$15,818
- 18Katherine SchuetzZionsville$15,088
- 19Anna TichenorBloomington$13,635
- 20Jeremy GardMuncie$12,648
- 21Jeremy CianoCarmel$12,319
- 22Samantha HornbergerLawrenceburg$12,317
- 23Peter KoernerIndianapolis$11,162
- 24Nicholas GarnZionsville$10,705
- 25Jessica HultsIndianapolis$10,102
- 26Michael AshmanMuncie$9,658
- 27Branden ShafferIndianapolis$9,445
- 28Kyle KingEvansville$8,996
- 29Brian RossTerre Haute$8,368
- 30Sean StreffZionsville$7,684
- 31Allison NowakCarmel$7,678
- 32Scott AllisonIndianapolis$7,675
- 33Alma NoreikaIndianapolis$7,269
- 34Katie ConnollyBloomington$7,088
- 35Christina StreffBrownsburg$7,043
- 36Scott HastyIndianapolis$7,034
- 37Ellie CrossmanBloomington$7,033
- 38Jeffrey WadeGranger$6,669
- 39Kylene PolhamusCarmel$6,654
- 40Walter EgenmaierEvansville$6,599
- 41Jennifer WadeElkhart$6,598
- 42Carolyn HallJeffersonville$6,566
- 43Diana FisherIndianapolis$6,559
- 44Christa WallingGreenfield$6,515
- 45Nathan MorrowIndianapolis$6,494
- 46Christopher AmbroseEvansville$6,364
- 47James StewartMuncie$6,344
- 48Timothy BirtwhistleIndianapolis$6,207
- 49Virginia BonillaMerrillville$6,111
- 50Stefan HanishEvansville$6,086
- 51Mark RoarkFishers$5,911
- 52Susan KovacichBloomington$5,911
- 53Kevin YaryanConnersville$5,892
- 54Christopher EmmonsIndianapolis$5,853
- 55James HainesZionsville$5,829
- 56Brett KingBloomington$5,739
- 57Michael DankovichJeffersonville$5,734
- 58Jennifer BaileyIndianapolis$5,692
- 59Grant RubeshClarksville$5,689
- 60Brian FiddlerFishers$5,633