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

NITASHA MERCHANT

Eye and Vision Services Providers Optometrist

NPI
1427625847
CMS profile
9696080
Location
CHICAGO, IL

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$777.14

  • Reported across 17 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$525.33

12 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 $525.33 12

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
CooperVision Inc. $221.67 3
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $206.55 6
GLAUKOS CORPORATION $41.50 1
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $35.18 1
Alcon Laboratories Inc $20.43 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $105.81 1
PY2023 $146.00 4
PY2024 $525.33 12

Payment records · PY2024 (12)

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

Program year 2024 20212023 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 $20.43 08/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1110721860 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $16.73 01/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421495 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $19.10 02/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421489 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $134.04 04/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421487 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $10.24 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421485 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $5.31 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421491 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $21.13 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140421493 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $92.00 04/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145507744 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $19.56 11/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145507780 CMS
CooperVision Inc. $110.11 12/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145507784 CMS
Glaukos Corporation $41.50 03/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151976870 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $35.18 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139117178 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
2021, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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