Steven C. East, OD

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Eye Clinic a Professional Medical Corp

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice.

• Margaret Young Carter, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Patrick Mark Crawford Jr., MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Katherine J. Fontenot, OD Optometrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Melvin M. Gehrig, OD Optometrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Jeffrey S. Hankin, OD Optometrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Marcy L. Hanudel, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Rebecca Kindler, OD Optometrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Lewis Virgil Murray IV, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Jonathan Perkins, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Lindsey Nicole Primeaux, OD Optometrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Charles Lapeyre Thompson, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Atlanta, GA
• Dr. Jon Anthony Yokubaitis, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lake Charles, LA

Other providers in Lake Charles

• Complete Family Eye Care LLC

  Organization Optometrist · NPI 1144690801

  339 W Prien Lake Rd Ste 200 B, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8452 · (337) 366-0905

• Dr. Norvel Barry Cranford, OD

  Individual Optometrist · NPI 1427112044

  4403 Lake St, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4311 · (337) 474-5789

• Dr. Rebecca Sue Mumm Cronan, OD

  Individual Optometrist · NPI 1699883850

  3451 Nelson Rd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-1209 · (337) 474-6850

• Daniel B. Smith, an Optometry Corporation

  Organization Optometrist · NPI 1720729296

  800 W Prien Lake Rd Ste 400, Lake Charles, LA 70601-9124 · (337) 502-4550

• Dr. Hannah Eastman Fawcett, OD

  Individual Optometrist · NPI 1376985507

  339 W Prien Lake Rd Ste 200B, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8452 · (337) 366-0905

• Dr. Andrew G. Erneston, OD

  Individual Optometrist · NPI 1477535987

  1717 Oak Park Blvd Ste 1, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8991 · (337) 478-3810

• Eye Clinic a Professional Medical Corp

  Organization Optometrist · NPI 1619915121

  1767 Imperial Blvd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-5362 · (337) 478-3810

• George P. Fink, OD

  Individual Optometrist · NPI 1497873079

  628 E Prien Lake Rd, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8686 · (337) 478-5776