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

LAURA ELIZABETH BUCHANAN

Eye and Vision Services Providers Optometrist

NPI
1033554068
CMS profile
1279908
Location
MOORESVILLE, NC

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$2,104.81

  • Reported across 57 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$291.91

11 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 $291.91 11

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $213.67 3
PY2019 $90.12 3
PY2020 $247.58 6
PY2021 $383.23 11
PY2022 $317.51 10
PY2023 $560.79 13
PY2024 $291.91 11

Payment records · PY2024 (11)

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
Alcon Vision LLC $17.16 08/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110631636 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $79.99 10/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110631638 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $23.54 07/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140392246 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $22.39 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140392244 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $22.54 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077739836 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $17.80 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077739858 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $24.29 08/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077739854 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $19.47 11/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077739802 CMS
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $23.91 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147428411 CMS
SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES INC. $14.53 12/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1152172184 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $26.29 05/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139085634 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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