RxDoctor Payments Data

Hasenin Al-Khersan, MD

Ophthalmology · Bellaire, TXNPI 1245761972

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,678 of the $75,864 with a category attached, or 66.8%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 24.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,877, more than ten times the $686 reported in 2019. Among ophthalmology 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.

$75,864in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $423.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$19K
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$17K
  • AbbVie$11K
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$10K
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$5K
  • Regeneron$4K
  • plus $10K from 16 others
$1,868,956in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 884 payments — averaging $2114.20 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Regeneron$1.4M
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$264K
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$212K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$4K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$50,67867%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$12,86517%
  • Travel & lodging$3,5545%
  • Food & beverage$8,76712%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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

$75,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

See all ophthalmology providers in Texas

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,983,121
Medicare patients
659
Services billed
10,806

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate93$5,180
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl46$948
Ketorolac Tromethamine31$440
Atropine Sulfate14$430
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat27$327
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha12$170
Brimonidine Tartrate15$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Bellaire

See the full list for Texas

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →