Optometry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $212,701 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,558
- Received a payment
- 40 (2.6%)
- Total reported
- $213K
- Average, those paid
- $5,318
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1,518 who received nothing would produce a number that describes neither group. Totals are dominated by a small number of large royalty and consulting arrangements; the typical payment in this specialty is far smaller than the average implies.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 34 | $167,384 | $4,923 |
| California | 99 | $6,689 | $68 |
| Texas | 48 | $5,341 | $111 |
| Utah | 6 | $4,629 | $772 |
| Michigan | 78 | $3,464 | $44 |
| Virginia | 26 | $3,055 | $117 |
| Massachusetts | 100 | $2,798 | $28 |
| Ohio | 48 | $2,701 | $56 |
| Oregon | 40 | $2,465 | $62 |
| Illinois | 60 | $1,985 | $33 |
| Connecticut | 14 | $1,961 | $140 |
| Pennsylvania | 75 | $1,689 | $23 |
| New York | 113 | $1,495 | $13 |
| New Jersey | 22 | $1,482 | $67 |
| Wisconsin | 73 | $1,405 | $19 |
| Mississippi | 11 | $1,163 | $106 |
| Oklahoma | 56 | $689 | $12 |
| Maryland | 21 | $630 | $30 |
| Arizona | 26 | $501 | $19 |
| Delaware | 1 | $378 | $378 |
| Washington | 66 | $300 | $5 |
| Wyoming | 9 | $295 | $33 |
| Nebraska | 14 | $201 | $14 |
| Indiana | 34 | $0 | $0 |
| Minnesota | 99 | $0 | $0 |
| Georgia | 16 | $0 | $0 |
| Iowa | 18 | $0 | $0 |
| Vermont | 29 | $0 | $0 |
| North Carolina | 20 | $0 | $0 |
| Colorado | 24 | $0 | $0 |
| Arkansas | 17 | $0 | $0 |
| Kentucky | 18 | $0 | $0 |
| Maine | 12 | $0 | $0 |
| Kansas | 32 | $0 | $0 |
| North Dakota | 21 | $0 | $0 |
| West Virginia | 9 | $0 | $0 |
| Florida | 19 | $0 | $0 |
| Alaska | 6 | $0 | $0 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | $0 | $0 |
| Alabama | 10 | $0 | $0 |
| Montana | 12 | $0 | $0 |
| New Mexico | 23 | $0 | $0 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | $0 | $0 |
| South Carolina | 13 | $0 | $0 |
| Missouri | 26 | $0 | $0 |
| Idaho | 8 | $0 | $0 |
| South Dakota | 11 | $0 | $0 |
| Nevada | 6 | $0 | $0 |
| Hawaii | 7 | $0 | $0 |
| Puerto Rico | 9 | $0 | $0 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| MP | 1 | $0 | $0 |