Akbar Shakoor
Ophthalmology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1669675229
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,000 of the $17,916 with a category attached, or 83.7%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 54.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,250 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $678 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in UT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 49 payments — averaging $365.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$10K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$6K
- AbbVie$502
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$305
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$275
- Dutch Ophthalmic, USA$255
- plus $793 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,00084%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4132%
- Food & beverage$2,48414%
- Gifts$190%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 10 | $9,786 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $6,000 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $502 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $305 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $275 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 3 | $255 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $139 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Heidelberg Engineering, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Alcon | 1 | $16 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- XIPERE$9,529
- RETISERT$6,000
- OZURDEX$343
- YUTIQ$275
- Cimerli$135
- Retina Workplace$131
- EYLEA HD$120
- EVA, combined machine$112
- TISSUEBLUE$112
- VYZULTA$111
- LOTEMAX SM$111
- PROLENSA$111
- EYLEA$111
How this compares
$17,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 191 ophthalmology providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 13 | $108,567 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 62 | $2,994 |
| Difluprednate | 11 | $1,484 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 21 | $1,372 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 13 | $1,220 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 37 | $1,170 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 55 | $688 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 13 | $602 |
| Latanoprost | 19 | $311 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 17 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Robert CionniSalt Lake City$161K
- Zachary ZavodniSalt Lake City$51K
- Majid MoshirfarSalt Lake City$44K
- Marc Steffen Schmitz-ValckenbergSalt Lake City$43K
- Rachel SimpsonSalt Lake City$39K
- Austin NakatsukaSalt Lake City$27K
- Douglas MarxSalt Lake City$22K
- Craig ChayaSalt Lake City$17K
- Amy LinSalt Lake City$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.