Doctor of Optometry Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Kaleb Abbott

Optometrist Aurora, CO Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1396230421 CMS profile 5195720

1675 Aurora Ct, Aurora, CO 80045

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General payments

$144,592

324 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$40,491 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Kaleb Abbott of Aurora, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $144,592 across 324 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $40,491 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 99th percentile of Optometrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $108,193 195
2024 General $35,394 96
2023 General $616 26
2022 General $255 5
2021 General $134 2

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Kaleb Abbott were reported at $108,193. 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 Kaleb Abbott Optometrist median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $159 $67–$371 $163
2020 $0 $72 $29–$165 $114
2021 $134 $125 $46–$292 $132
2022 $255 $162 $66–$374 $149
2023 $616 $177 $72–$406 $160
2024 $35,394 $188 $77–$427 $164
2025 $108,193 $204 $87–$464 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $54,012 114 payments
  2. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $42,234 64 payments
  3. Harrow Eye, LLC $17,691 43 payments
  4. Alcon Vision LLC $14,033 23 payments
  5. Alcon Research LLC $7,650 2 payments
  6. Dompe US, Inc. $4,879 14 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $1,444 3 payments
  8. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $1,156 19 payments
  9. Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $805 36 payments
  10. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $383 1 payment
  11. Other $305 5 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $44,375 23 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $42,450 16 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $35,722 23 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $12,549 80 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $9,484 180 payments
  6. Education $12 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. MIEBO $48,691 98 payments
  2. XIIDRA Ophthalmology $41,248 76 payments
  3. XDEMVY $38,028 55 payments
  4. TRYPTYR $20,944 16 payments
  5. VEVYE $17,278 37 payments
  6. XIIDRA Ophthalmology $7,344 20 payments
  7. OXERVATE $4,879 14 payments
  8. Cequa $1,156 19 payments
  9. BLINK NUTRITEARS $1,000 3 payments
  10. TYRVAYA $512 24 payments
  11. Other $1,221 31 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 · 17 drugs

Part D claims

1,124

Median for Optometry: 120

Drug cost

$4,733,342

Median for Optometry: $8,864

Branded share of claims

86.6%

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 95 $3,740,819
Xiidra Lifitegrast Brand 156 $252,956
Miebo Perfluorohexyloctane/Pf Brand 177 $235,360
Restasis Cyclosporine Brand 119 $157,313
Cequa Cyclosporine Brand 160 $121,796
Xdemvy Lotilaner Brand 44 $82,114
Tyrvaya Varenicline Tartrate Brand 48 $54,153
Vevye Cyclosporine Brand 60 $51,211
Cyclosporine Generic 53 $26,885
Simbrinza Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart Brand 23 $4,769

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 counted.

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 · 20 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$60,670

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

512

Average age 74

Services billed

1,189

365 women, 147 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 69%
Arthritis 58%
Diabetes 31%
Osteoporosis 29%
Depression 27%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
COPD 17%

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 9 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. $11,035
$11,035 44 —
VEVYE
  • Harrow Eye, LLC $6,264
$6,264 60 —
OXERVATE
  • Dompe US, Inc. $4,555
$4,555 95 —
XIIDRA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $3,694
$3,694 156 —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $3,681
$3,681 177 —

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

324 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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