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

Marcella Pipitone

Optometrist Kent, OH Doctor of Optometry

NPI 1275910259 CMS profile 1833443

2013 State Route 59, Kent, OH 44240

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General payments

$10,253

218 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, Marcella Pipitone of Kent, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,253 across 218 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 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 $618 31
2024 General $889 32
2023 General $584 27
2022 General $750 32
2021 General $3,685 42
2020 General $2,136 17
2019 General $1,591 37

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Marcella Pipitone were reported at $618. 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 Marcella Pipitone Optometrist median Middle half National median
2019 $1,591 $159 $67–$371 $163
2020 $2,136 $72 $29–$165 $114
2021 $3,685 $125 $46–$292 $132
2022 $750 $162 $66–$374 $149
2023 $584 $177 $72–$406 $160
2024 $889 $188 $77–$427 $164
2025 $618 $204 $87–$464 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $5,217 18 payments
  2. CooperVision Inc. $818 9 payments
  3. Alcon Vision LLC $675 29 payments
  4. AbbVie, Inc. $655 33 payments
  5. Allergan Inc. $568 28 payments
  6. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $279 15 payments
  7. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $233 15 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $212 10 payments
  9. Glaukos Corporation $200 3 payments
  10. Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $197 10 payments
  11. Other $1,197 48 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $4,744 7 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $4,719 203 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $732 6 payments
  4. Education $58 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. rocklatan Glaucoma $4,929 11 payments
  2. rhopressa $4,898 9 payments
  3. Non-Product Brand Specific $732 6 payments
  4. Rocklatan Ophthalmology $464 19 payments
  5. Rocklatan Glaucoma $260 7 payments
  6. LUMIGAN Eye Care $242 13 payments
  7. VYZULTA $213 14 payments
  8. MIEBO $210 11 payments
  9. LUMIGAN Ophthalmology $203 5 payments
  10. LUMIGAN Ophthalmology $196 13 payments
  11. Other $3,711 178 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 · 24 drugs

Part D claims

3,132

Median for Optometry: 120

Drug cost

$394,771

Median for Optometry: $8,864

Branded share of claims

42.8%

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
Lumigan Bimatoprost Brand 253 $155,438
Restasis Cyclosporine Brand 33 $47,810
Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate Brand 58 $33,171
Rocklatan Netarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost Brand 37 $25,779
Vyzulta Latanoprostene Bunod Brand 49 $19,190
Brimonidine Tartrate Generic 314 $17,920
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 56 $17,391
Latanoprost Generic 908 $11,725
Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat Brand 480 $9,061
Simbrinza Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart Brand 37 $8,469

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 24 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 · 18 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$86,330

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

561

Average age 75

Services billed

1,439

326 women, 235 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 68%
Arthritis 45%
Diabetes 25%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Depression 21%
Ischemic heart disease 20%
Osteoporosis 17%
Atrial fibrillation 16%

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 11 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
Rocklatan
  • Alcon Vision LLC $159
$159 37 —
DURYSTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $93
$93 — —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $70
$70 — —
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $62
$62 — —
LUMIGAN
  • AbbVie, Inc. $55
$55 253 —

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

218 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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