Who Paid My Doc
Barbara Helms
Optometrist Grand Rapids, MI Doctor of Optometry
NPI 1164563870 CMS profile 7026
1600 E Beltline Ave Ne, Ste 112, Grand Rapids, MI 49525
General payments
$4,139
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Barbara Helms of Grand Rapids, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,139 across 86 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 91st percentile of Optometrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $410 | 12 | |
| 2024 | General | $246 | 7 | |
| 2023 | General | $714 | 20 | |
| 2022 | General | $85 | 4 | |
| 2021 | General | $382 | 10 | |
| 2020 | General | $1,741 | 18 | |
| 2019 | General | $561 | 15 |
Beside peers
- Barbara Helms
- Optometrist median
- Middle half of Optometrist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Barbara Helms were reported at $410. Among 35,373 Optometrist profiles paid that year, the median was $204 and the middle half received between $87 and $464.
Show as a table
| Year | Barbara Helms | Optometrist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $561 | $159 | $67–$371 | $163 |
| 2020 | $1,741 | $72 | $29–$165 | $114 |
| 2021 | $382 | $125 | $46–$292 | $132 |
| 2022 | $85 | $162 | $66–$374 | $149 |
| 2023 | $714 | $177 | $72–$406 | $160 |
| 2024 | $246 | $188 | $77–$427 | $164 |
| 2025 | $410 | $204 | $87–$464 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 1 drugPart D claims
11
Drug cost
$137
Branded share of claims
100%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-Dexameth Neomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | Brand | 11 | $137 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 27,653 Part D prescribers listed as Optometry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
86 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.