Who Paid My Doc
Caroline Kaufman
Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management Bellevue, WA Doctor of Optometry
NPI 1831294503 CMS profile 444368
4317 Factoria Blvd Se, Suite A, Bellevue, WA 98006
General payments
$1,107
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$68,115
Through program year 2025, Caroline Kaufman of Bellevue, WA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,107 across 17 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $68,115 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 58th percentile of Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management 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 | $165 | 4 | |
| 2024 | General | $297 | 4 | |
| 2023 | General | $161 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $376 | 4 | |
| 2021 | General | $12 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $96 | 2 |
Beside peers
- Caroline Kaufman
- Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management median
- Middle half of Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Caroline Kaufman were reported at $165. Among 618 Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management profiles paid that year, the median was $227 and the middle half received between $95 and $604.
Show as a table
| Year | Caroline Kaufman | Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $96 | $203 | $84–$530 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $88 | $35–$234 | $114 |
| 2021 | $12 | $143 | $54–$353 | $132 |
| 2022 | $376 | $167 | $65–$422 | $149 |
| 2023 | $161 | $195 | $76–$549 | $160 |
| 2024 | $297 | $202 | $85–$523 | $164 |
| 2025 | $165 | $227 | $95–$604 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 7 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$1,842
Medicare patients
12
Services billed
24
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diabetes | 0% | |
| Heart failure | 0% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 0% | |
| Depression | 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
2 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIEBO |
|
$62 | — | — |
| XIIDRA |
|
$62 | — | — |
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
17 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.