Who Paid My Doc
Richard Baker
Optometrist Houston, TX Doctor of Optometry
NPI 1750345658 CMS profile 698243
3900 Essex Ln, Suite 101, Houston, TX 77027
General payments
$78,098
Research payments
$22
Ownership & investment interest
$164,773
Through program year 2025, Richard Baker of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $78,098 across 50 general payments and $22 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $164,773 across 3 holdings.
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 99th percentile of Optometrist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
10 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $20 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $74,859 | 8 | |
| 2022 | General | $136 | 7 | |
| 2021 | General | $374 | 17 | |
| 2021 | Research | $22 | 2 | |
| 2020 | General | $2,300 | 2 | |
| 2019 | General | $409 | 15 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $61,323 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $54,450 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $49,000 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Richard Baker
- Optometrist median
- Middle half of Optometrist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Baker were reported at $20. Among 35,373 Optometrist profiles paid that year, the median was $204 and the middle half received between $87 and $464.
Show as a table
| Year | Richard Baker | Optometrist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $409 | $159 | $67–$371 | $163 |
| 2020 | $2,300 | $72 | $29–$165 | $114 |
| 2021 | $374 | $125 | $46–$292 | $132 |
| 2022 | $136 | $162 | $66–$374 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $177 | $72–$406 | $160 |
| 2024 | $74,859 | $188 | $77–$427 | $164 |
| 2025 | $20 | $204 | $87–$464 | $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
52 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.