Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

BRAD P KASTER

Eye and Vision Services Providers Optometrist

NPI
1003887928
CMS profile
272456
Location
AKRON, OH

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$7,067.36

  • Reported across 141 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$1,007.24

16 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $930.53 15
Entertainment $76.71 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $2,198.87 31
PY2019 $991.88 28
PY2020 $505.80 19
PY2021 $756.73 15
PY2022 $657.09 15
PY2023 $949.75 17
PY2024 $1,007.24 16

Payment records · PY2024 (16)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABB Con-Cise Optical Group LLC $33.06 08/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089751425 CMS
ABB Con-Cise Optical Group LLC $57.80 10/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089751427 CMS
ABB Con-Cise Optical Group LLC $50.70 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089751429 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $81.88 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110637327 CMS
Amgen Inc. $130.01 04/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111615301 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $95.28 08/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140310968 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $66.68 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140310970 CMS
BIOTISSUE HOLDINGS INC. $14.63 09/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148766720 CMS
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. $132.57 11/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153261266 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $28.00 01/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145471794 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $27.33 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145471854 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $25.00 06/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145471862 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $41.00 11/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145471912 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $24.75 12/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077747497 CMS
Optos, Inc. $76.71 04/29/2024 Entertainment Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141503298 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $121.84 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139106991 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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