Has Heather Hancock, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $38,597 in general payments to Heather Hancock, MD across 180 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 Heather Hancock, MD 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 Heather Hancock, MD 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.

Heather Hancock, MD

Ophthalmology · Jackson, MSNPI 1821120072

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $34,050 of the $38,597 with a category attached, or 88.2%. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. accounts for 93.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $21,724, more than ten times the $145 reported in 2019. Among ophthalmology clinicians in MS 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.

$38,597in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 180 payments — averaging $214.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$36K
AbbVie$626
Alcon$432
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$344
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$338
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$207
plus $712 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$34,05088%
Travel & lodging$1330%
Food & beverage$4,36911%
Gifts$450%

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
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	89	$35,938
AbbVie(2 entities)	32	$626
Alcon	4	$432
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$344
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	11	$338
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$207
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$192
Regeneron	1	$98
Alimera Sciences, Inc.	4	$88
Glaukos Corporation	1	$81
Astellas Pharma US Inc	4	$81
Genentech USA, Inc.	4	$67
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	2	$38
Boston Scientific	2	$34
Novartis	2	$33

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.

ACTHAR$34,183
NGENUITY$222
Clareon$140
Inspire$134
EYLEA HD$125

How this compares

$38,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 150 ophthalmology providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$711,651

Medicare patients

1,480

Services billed

11,045

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate	390	$10,585
Ketorolac Tromethamine	491	$7,509
Difluprednate	16	$2,128
Eplerenone	27	$1,782
Brimonidine Tartrate	229	$1,333
Travoprost	11	$1,331
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	104	$1,210
Latanoprost	140	$865
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	66	$695
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	29	$517
Doxycycline Hyclate	16	$339
Dorzolamide Hcl	23	$276
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	24	$240
Timolol Maleate	29	$186

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Jackson

Mark KoskoJackson$27K
John ShippJackson$10K
Kirk JeffreysJackson$9K
Lee JonesJackson$8K
Albert WilliamsJackson$6K
Younghyun OhJackson$5K
Farrah NewmanJackson$4K
Taylor SmithJackson$4K
Cassie ConfaitJackson$4K
Curtis WhittingtonJackson$4K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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