Doctor of Optometry Program year 2023 Reported 2021–2023 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Helen Chandoha Knott

Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management West Hazleton, PA Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1750324596 CMS profile 170544

601 N Broad St, West Hazleton, PA 18202

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General payments

$203

6 records reported · program years 2021–2023

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2023

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2023, Helen Chandoha Knott of West Hazleton, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $203 across 6 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 26th percentile of Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

3 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2023 General $24 1
2022 General $143 3
2021 General $35 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Helen Chandoha Knott
  • Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management median
  • Middle half of Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Helen Chandoha Knott were reported at $0. Among 618 Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management profiles paid that year, the median was $227 and the middle half received between $95 and $604.

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Year Helen Chandoha Knott Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $203 $84–$530 $163
2020 $0 $88 $35–$234 $114
2021 $35 $143 $54–$353 $132
2022 $143 $167 $65–$422 $149
2023 $24 $195 $76–$549 $160
2024 $0 $202 $85–$523 $164
2025 $0 $227 $95–$604 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2023
  1. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $150 3 payments
  2. Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $39 2 payments
  3. Allergan Inc. $15 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2023
  1. Food and Beverage $203 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2023
  1. Acuvue $150 3 payments
  2. TYRVAYA $39 2 payments
  3. RESTASIS MULTIDOSE $15 1 payment

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 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

80

Median for Optometry: 120

Drug cost

$21,869

Median for Optometry: $8,864

Branded share of claims

21.2%

Median for Optometry: 24.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Restasis Cyclosporine Brand 17 $10,625
Cyclosporine Generic 21 $9,412
Travoprost Generic 13 $1,736
Timolol Maleate Generic 29 $97

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

6 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 2023

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

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