Has Faheem Inayatali received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,003 in general payments to Faheem Inayatali across 88 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Faheem Inayatali did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Faheem Inayatali come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Faheem Inayatali

Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1740601087

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,600 of the $15,003 with a category attached, or 64.0%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 65.6% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,373, 6.4 times the $688 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$15,003in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $170.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Coopervision Inc.$10K
Lumenis BE Inc$2K
AbbVie$420
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$376
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$366
Optos, Inc.$318
plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,60064%
Speaking & faculty fees$2302%
Food & beverage$4,93533%
Gifts$190%
Entertainment$2191%

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
Coopervision Inc.	29	$9,845
Lumenis BE Inc	1	$2,000
AbbVie(2 entities)	8	$420
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$376
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	11	$366
Optos, Inc.	4	$318
Alcon	5	$251
Notal Vision, Inc.	2	$230
Heru, Inc.	3	$192
Sight Sciences, Inc.	2	$149
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$145
Topcon Healthcare, Inc.	1	$144
ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC	2	$120
Novartis	5	$115
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$102
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	3	$78
Maculogix, Inc.	1	$73
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	2	$45
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG	1	$19
Sanofi	1	$14

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.

How this compares

$15,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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