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

MICHAEL CAISTER

Eye and Vision Services Providers Optometrist

NPI
1285813162
CMS profile
239567
Location
SAINT CLAIR, MI

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$2,187.71

  • Reported across 85 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$247.60

13 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 $247.60 13

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Alcon Laboratories Inc $147.85 7
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $55.49 3
Sight Sciences, Inc. $31.11 2
SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES INC. $13.15 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $368.06 9
PY2019 $388.39 14
PY2020 $145.83 9
PY2021 $294.54 12
PY2022 $511.00 16
PY2023 $232.29 12
PY2024 $247.60 13

Payment records · PY2024 (13)

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 $16.24 03/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646935 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $18.15 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646937 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $23.38 07/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646941 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $21.43 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646939 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $13.48 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646933 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $28.45 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646945 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $26.72 12/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110646943 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $19.59 01/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140410190 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $18.88 07/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140410188 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $17.02 12/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140410186 CMS
Sight Sciences, Inc. $16.68 02/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151935567 CMS
Sight Sciences, Inc. $14.43 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151935565 CMS
SUN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES INC. $13.15 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1152182281 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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