RxDoctor Payments Data

Haleh Ebrahimi

Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1386909703

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,286 and has fallen 78.2% since, to $718 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TX 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.

$5,780in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $58.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Coopervision Inc.$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
  • Alcon$540
  • Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$319
  • Rxsight Inc$153
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$141
  • plus $865 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,52644%
  • Food & beverage$3,25456%

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

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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.

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

$5,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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