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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
The Walman Optical Company
The Walman Optical Company reported $47,135.59 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 29 physicians and teaching hospitals across 29 transactions.
- $47.1K Below-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 29 Below-median volume
- Transactions
- 29 Below-median reach
- Recipients
- −$3.8K
- General Payments vs PY2023
The Walman Optical Company reported $47,135.59 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 29 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1364 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $47,135.59, averaging $1.6K per recipient.
The Walman Optical Company's payment reach score
Each tracked dimension is percentile-scored against the national companies corpus, then averaged across only the dimensions that apply to this company, a neutral scale measure of reporting activity, not a rating of quality, safety, or ethics.
Overall reach score
F
13/100
Total payments
F
10/100
Transaction volume
F
10/100
Physician reach
F
10/100
Payment type diversity
F
23/100
Data currency: Figures are rendered from the processed CMS Open Payments release. See our methodology for source dates and refresh cadence. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.
CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer the-walman-optical-company The Walman Optical Company
$47.1K · #1364/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $47.1K
- RANK #1364
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 29
- RCP 29
- CAT 2
- GEN $47.1K
- ΔGEN −$3.8K
- TOP1 83.1%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Aspen Surgical Products, Inc. ($47.1K)
The Walman Optical Company sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →
Release-over-release change
General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024
The Walman Optical Company's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $3.8K (−7.5%) from PY2023 to PY2024.
How this year-over-year comparison is scoped
The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.
CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: THE WALMAN OPTICAL COMPANYPY2023: THE WALMAN OPTICAL COMPANYPY2024: The Walman Optical Company. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.
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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024
Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total
- PY2023
- $50,947.34
- PY2024
- $47,135.59
What the Data Shows for The Walman Optical Company
CMS Open Payments is not a single ledger: the all-tracks total shown above is General Payments plus Research Payments plus Ownership/Investment interests, each with its own disclosure rules. For The Walman Optical Company that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). Data for a given Program Year arrives roughly a year after the period it covers; our methodology page documents the release cadence and how we standardize the tracks for cross-company comparison.
24 transactions worth $45.7K make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 2-category breakdown below, 96.9% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Consulting Fee" leads The Walman Optical Company's 2-category general-payment breakdown at $45.7K, 96.9% of the reported total.
How The Walman Optical Company divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $45.7K | 24 | 96.9% |
| Gift | $1.4K | 5 | 3.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $46,865.59 (99.4%) of $47,135.59 in this company's General Payments records across 6 recipients.
General Payments scope note
Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.
Largest General-Payment relationships for The Walman Optical Company
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Andrew Joseph Biondo
$39,191.19 across 12 reported transactions
- 2
Nicholas Joseph McColley
$6,500.00 across 12 reported transactions
- 3
Yuh Jen Liao
$408.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 4
Ralph J Gentile
$400.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 5
John S Lee
$366.40 across 2 reported transactions
Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.
Spend vs. Concentration
The Walman Optical Company ranks #1364 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 29% by spend) but is notably more concentrated than that alone would suggest -- #223 of 1,838 by HHI (top 12% most concentrated). Its payments land on an unusually narrow set of recipients for its spend size.
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- Gentuity, LLC : $144.4K total payments, HHI 7294
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- Forestadent USA, Inc. : $247.1K total payments, HHI 7271
- Celltrion Healthcare Canada Ltd. : $14.7K total payments, HHI 7263
- Mission Pharmacal Company : $82.4K total payments, HHI 7251
- Illumina, Inc. : $4.0M total payments, HHI 7249
- The Walman Optical Company (this company) : $47.1K total payments, HHI 7106
- Sebela Women's Health Inc. : $156.8K total payments, HHI 7064
- Vero Biotech Inc. : $4.4K total payments, HHI 7058
- Vital Connect, Inc : $141.5K total payments, HHI 7052
- Accufix Surgical Inc. : $16.4K total payments, HHI 7031
- Genentech, Inc. : $59.4M total payments, HHI 6977
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as The Walman Optical Company's, measured by the same HHI concentration index above, not by payment size.
What HHI 2,500 means here
2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about The Walman Optical Company.
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Put this to use
The Walman Optical Company ranks #1364 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".
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Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
Disclaimer
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