Who Paid My Doc
Kelly Kao
Optometrist, Vision Therapy Berkeley, CA Doctor of Optometry
NPI 1578792891 CMS profile 465263
200 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
General payments
$173
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2022, Kelly Kao of Berkeley, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $173 across 4 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 32nd percentile of Optometrist, Vision Therapy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | General | $36 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $19 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $118 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Kelly Kao
- Optometrist, Vision Therapy median
- Middle half of Optometrist, Vision Therapy
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Kelly Kao were reported at $0. Among 159 Optometrist, Vision Therapy profiles paid that year, the median was $172 and the middle half received between $65 and $349.
Show as a table
| Year | Kelly Kao | Optometrist, Vision Therapy median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $118 | $149 | $42–$361 | $163 |
| 2020 | $19 | $59 | $20–$146 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $114 | $43–$217 | $132 |
| 2022 | $36 | $130 | $46–$350 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $153 | $70–$363 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $157 | $71–$362 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $172 | $65–$349 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
4 reportedEvery 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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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.