Hamida Hemani
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1164425518
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,219 of the $8,218 with a category attached, or 63.5%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 34.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,507 and has fallen 66.0% since, to $1,192 in 2025. 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.
Across 53 payments — averaging $155.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$821
- Alcon$714
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$285
- Optos, Inc.$235
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,76434%
- Food & beverage$5,21964%
- Entertainment$2353%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 4 | $2,806 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $821 |
| Alcon | 8 | $714 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 4 | $285 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $235 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $209 |
| Novartis | 3 | $165 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Amgen | 1 | $143 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $130 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $123 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $122 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $122 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $38 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $7 |
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.
- Clariti Contact Lens$2,764
- CEQUA$722
- TOTAL30$362
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$278
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$278
- XIIDRA$236
- Precision 1$231
- Acuvue$145
- TEPEZZA$143
- NFC-700$139
- iDoseTR$125
- VUITY$123
- Izervay$122
- ULTOMIRIS$122
- Oxervate$117
- ALDEN SCLERAL ZENLENS$109
- DAILIES TOTAL1$107
- Precision7$107
- Systane$105
- Opti-Free$105
How this compares
$8,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$547K
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$222K
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$214K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
- Seema NandaHouston$87K
- Danica MarrelliHouston$87K
- Richard BakerHouston$78K
- Karen LeeHouston$71K
- Nishi MehdirattaHouston$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.