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

John Gelles

Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management Sunnyvale, CA Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1952743627 CMS profile 646780

1010 W Fremont Ave, 200, Sunnyvale, CA 94087

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General payments

$37,058

154 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, John Gelles of Sunnyvale, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $37,058 across 154 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 97th percentile of Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management 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 $3,000 27
2024 General $2,957 25
2023 General $5,441 19
2022 General $8,089 28
2021 General $9,257 25
2020 General $4,051 10
2019 General $4,264 20

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to John Gelles were reported at $3,000. 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 John Gelles Optometrist, Corneal and Contact Management median Middle half National median
2019 $4,264 $203 $84–$530 $163
2020 $4,051 $88 $35–$234 $114
2021 $9,257 $143 $54–$353 $132
2022 $8,089 $167 $65–$422 $149
2023 $5,441 $195 $76–$549 $160
2024 $2,957 $202 $85–$523 $164
2025 $3,000 $227 $95–$604 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. OCULUS, Inc. $15,840 12 payments
  2. Glaukos Corporation $7,107 24 payments
  3. Visionary Optics LLC $4,872 5 payments
  4. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $3,763 5 payments
  5. CooperVision Inc. $1,634 6 payments
  6. Alcon Vision LLC $1,399 5 payments
  7. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $310 19 payments
  8. Sight Sciences, Inc. $308 7 payments
  9. Lumenis BE inc $265 1 payment
  10. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $181 10 payments
  11. Other $1,378 60 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Honoraria $17,700 14 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $6,750 5 payments
  3. Gift $4,372 4 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $4,070 123 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $1,500 1 payment
  6. Travel and Lodging $1,416 6 payments
  7. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $1,250 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Pentacam $6,750 5 payments
  2. Pentacam AXL WAVE $5,000 2 payments
  3. Keratograph $2,000 2 payments
  4. Myopia Master $2,000 1 payment
  5. Onefit Contact Lens $1,634 6 payments
  6. ZEN LENS $1,500 1 payment
  7. DAILIES $1,399 5 payments
  8. Photrexa $1,319 3 payments
  9. ILINK $700 1 payment
  10. AIR OPTIX $648 3 payments
  11. Other $4,299 140 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 · 1 drug

Part D claims

22

Median for Optometry: 120

Drug cost

$285

Median for Optometry: $8,864

Branded share of claims

100%

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
Moxifloxacin Moxifloxacin Hcl Brand 22 $285

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 · 9 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$4,525

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

19

Average age 75

Services billed

33

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 75%
Arthritis 58%

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 10 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
ELAHERE
  • AbbVie, Inc. $176
$176 — —
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $55
$55 — —
TYRVAYA
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $43
$43 — —
Cequa
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $35
$35 — —
VEVYE
  • Harrow Eye, LLC $32
$32 — —

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

154 reported

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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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