Vision Therapy in Florida
10 providers, $16,199 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 vision therapy clinicians in Florida
Across 4 vision therapy clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $83,171 in total — an average of $20,793 each, of which $20,793 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
- 1Nathan BonillawarfordTampa$10,906
- 2Regina ManesWest Palm Beach$2,163
- 3Paul RousseauRockledge$1,264
- 4Pauline BuckMiami$755
- 5Jennifer Williams-McdermedOrlando$491
- 6Harvey MazerWeston$441
- 7Stephen FranzblauGreenacres$120
- 8John WalesbyTampa$34
- 9Marc ShermanLongwood$13
- 10John WalesbyTampa$12