Doctor of Optometry Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Jason Besecker

Optometrist Meridian, ID Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1114278447 CMS profile 594095

1130 E Fairview Ave, Meridian, ID 83642

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General payments

$29,310

210 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Jason Besecker of Meridian, ID is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $29,310 across 210 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 98th 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 $16,770 104
2024 General $6,716 39
2023 General $1,002 14
2022 General $2,332 17
2021 General $283 10
2020 General $1,209 4
2019 General $996 22

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Jason Besecker were reported at $16,770. 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 Jason Besecker Optometrist median Middle half National median
2019 $996 $159 $67–$371 $163
2020 $1,209 $72 $29–$165 $114
2021 $283 $125 $46–$292 $132
2022 $2,332 $162 $66–$374 $149
2023 $1,002 $177 $72–$406 $160
2024 $6,716 $188 $77–$427 $164
2025 $16,770 $204 $87–$464 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $17,064 75 payments
  2. TissueTech, Inc. $7,303 22 payments
  3. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,561 43 payments
  4. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $608 12 payments
  5. Alcon Vision LLC $403 9 payments
  6. Dompe US, Inc. $384 10 payments
  7. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $373 10 payments
  8. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $259 5 payments
  9. Sight Sciences, Inc. $224 3 payments
  10. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $183 4 payments
  11. Other $948 17 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $13,700 9 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,107 185 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $4,850 5 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $2,548 9 payments
  5. Education $104 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. MIEBO $16,336 67 payments
  2. XIIDRA $15,006 52 payments
  3. PROKERA Human Tissue Products $2,919 10 payments
  4. AMNIOGRAFT Human Tissue Products $1,919 9 payments
  5. XDEMVY $1,254 40 payments
  6. AmnioGuard $1,141 6 payments
  7. Prokera Medical Device (510K) $1,141 6 payments
  8. AmnioGraft Human Tissue Products (361 HCT/P) $1,141 6 payments
  9. EYSUVIS $608 12 payments
  10. INVELTYS $470 10 payments
  11. Other $3,633 71 payments

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 · 7 drugs

Part D claims

243

Median for Optometry: 120

Drug cost

$936,063

Median for Optometry: $8,864

Branded share of claims

67.9%

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
Oxervate Cenegermin-Bkbj Brand 31 $871,268
Xdemvy Lotilaner Brand 31 $57,195
Tobramycin-Dexamethasone Tobramycin/Dexamethasone Brand 83 $3,185
Fluorometholone Generic 44 $2,191
Loteprednol Etabonate Generic 16 $1,798
Erythromycin Erythromycin Base Brand 20 $283
Latanoprost Generic 18 $142

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.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 17 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$50,827

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

165

Average age 75

Services billed

577

125 women, 40 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 61%
Arthritis 58%
Osteoporosis 33%
Depression 21%
Cancer 19%
Chronic kidney disease 17%
Ischemic heart disease 16%
Atrial fibrillation 13%

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

First 5 of 6 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
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $705
$705 31 —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $687
$687 — —
VYZULTA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $412
$412 — —
ACTHAR
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $122
$122 — —
OXERVATE
  • Dompe US, Inc. $90
$90 31 —

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.

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Records

210 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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