Who Paid My Doc
Esther Nakagawara
Optometrist Garner, NC Doctor of Optometry
NPI 1508171364 CMS profile 295425
958 Vandora Springs Rd, Garner, NC 27529
General payments
$8,533
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$354,475
Through program year 2025, Esther Nakagawara of Garner, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,533 across 129 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $354,475 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 97th 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 | $1,445 | 14 | |
| 2024 | General | $914 | 9 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,916 | 21 | |
| 2022 | General | $982 | 26 | |
| 2021 | General | $738 | 19 | |
| 2020 | General | $600 | 10 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,937 | 30 |
Beside peers
- Esther Nakagawara
- Optometrist median
- Middle half of Optometrist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Esther Nakagawara were reported at $1,445. 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 | Esther Nakagawara | Optometrist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,937 | $159 | $67–$371 | $163 |
| 2020 | $600 | $72 | $29–$165 | $114 |
| 2021 | $738 | $125 | $46–$292 | $132 |
| 2022 | $982 | $162 | $66–$374 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,916 | $177 | $72–$406 | $160 |
| 2024 | $914 | $188 | $77–$427 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,445 | $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
15
Drug cost
$117
Branded share of claims
0%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | Generic | 15 | $117 |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izervay |
|
$125 | — | — |
| OXERVATE |
|
$59 | — | — |
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
129 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.