Brian Ranelle
Ophthalmology · Hurst, TXNPI 1477648301
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 174 payments — averaging $61.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$2K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$1K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$989
- Lensar, Inc.$715
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,53214%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,12620%
- Travel & lodging$8818%
- Food & beverage$6,11757%
- Education$400%
- Gifts$621%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $2,283 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 29 | $2,114 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 18 | $1,537 |
| Alcon | 44 | $1,018 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 9 | $989 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 2 | $715 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $586 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 3 | $333 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $215 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $212 |
| Novartis | 10 | $180 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PROLENSA$2,100
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$1,532
- VisuMax$1,118
- LENSAR LASER SYSTEM$715
- Prokera$671
- AmnioGraft$671
- IC-8 Apthera IOL$147
- ReSTOR$125
- ORA$124
- Rhopressa$122
- Rocklatan$122
- DURYSTA$117
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$111
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$111
How this compares
$10,757 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Hurst
- Gang HuHurst$2.3M
- Charles WykoffBellaire$73.4M
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- Sunil PatelAbilene$11.1M
- Chirag JhaveriAustin$9.4M
- Robert WongAustin$6.6M
- Fuad MakkoukAustin$6.6M
- Patrick WilliamsArlington$6.6M
- Ashkan AbbeyDallas$5.7M
- Karl CsakyDallas$4.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.