Doctor of Optometry Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Alexa Caruso

Optometrist Boston, MA Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1881218634 CMS profile 7376364

33 Broad St, Boston, MA 02109

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General payments

$10,362

140 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Alexa Caruso of Boston, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,362 across 140 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Optometrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $823 17
2024 General $6,792 46
2023 General $1,202 29
2022 General $1,137 34
2021 General $390 13
2020 General $19 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Alexa Caruso
  • Optometrist median
  • Middle half of Optometrist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Alexa Caruso were reported at $823. Among 35,373 Optometrist profiles paid that year, the median was $204 and the middle half received between $87 and $464.

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Year Alexa Caruso Optometrist median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $159 $67–$371 $163
2020 $19 $72 $29–$165 $114
2021 $390 $125 $46–$292 $132
2022 $1,137 $162 $66–$374 $149
2023 $1,202 $177 $72–$406 $160
2024 $6,792 $188 $77–$427 $164
2025 $823 $204 $87–$464 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. CooperVision Inc. $6,526 35 payments
  2. Alcon Vision LLC $942 14 payments
  3. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $877 31 payments
  4. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $638 22 payments
  5. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $401 7 payments
  6. Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $231 7 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $227 6 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $213 8 payments
  9. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $151 5 payments
  10. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $137 4 payments
  11. Other $20 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,334 131 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $2,640 1 payment
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $1,500 1 payment
  4. Travel and Lodging $881 6 payments
  5. Education $8 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. MyDay Contact Lens $4,861 18 payments
  2. INFUSE $699 27 payments
  3. Cequa $638 22 payments
  4. TOTAL30 $576 8 payments
  5. Acuvue $401 7 payments
  6. XIIDRA $250 10 payments
  7. TYRVAYA $196 6 payments
  8. Clariti Contact Lens $194 2 payments
  9. DAILIES $173 1 payment
  10. MiSight Contact Lens $152 2 payments
  11. Other $1,131 31 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 6 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$3,337

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

42

Average age 72

Services billed

48

24 women, 18 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 48%
Arthritis 31%
Heart failure 0%
Atrial fibrillation 0%
Alzheimer's or dementia 0%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

5 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Cequa
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $187
$187 — —
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $103
$103 — —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $26
$26 — —
XIIDRA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $18
$18 — —
TYRVAYA
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $17
$17 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

140 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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