Iqbal Ahmed, MD
Ophthalmology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1801462809
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $614,088 of the $894,808 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 45.6% of the total. Among ophthalmology clinicians in UT 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 326 payments — averaging $2744.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$408K
- Glaukos Corporation$214K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$85K
- Oculus Surgical Inc.$82K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$31K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$22K
- plus $53K from 8 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $35,689 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.
- Alcon Research LLC$233K
- NEW World Medical,inc.$69K
- Glaukos Corporation$19K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$61,6737%
- Consulting fees$614,08869%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,4574%
- Travel & lodging$6,9581%
- Food & beverage$5,6921%
- Other$171,93919%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 181 | $407,792 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 27 | $214,141 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 22 | $85,255 |
| Oculus Surgical Inc. | 13 | $81,873 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 24 | $30,673 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 15 | $22,213 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 16 | $21,066 |
| Microsurgical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $18,000 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $4,028 |
| Nova Eye, Inc. | 1 | $3,825 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $2,500 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $885 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 11 | $557 |
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.
- Hydrus Microstent$221,537
- Clareon$92,482
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY$92,310
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix UV IOL$68,671
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$63,188
- GONIO ready$61,603
- Centurion$56,819
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass System Model iS3$48,680
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass System Model G2-M-IS$47,438
- Tecnis IOL$43,652
- ARGOS$35,891
- iStent infinite Trabecular Micro-Bypass System Model iS3$35,438
- Product in Development$30,673
- iDose$25,813
- iDose TR$23,188
- ENVISTA ENVY IOL$23,013
- Tecnis Simplicity$21,506
- Compact Intuitiv$21,506
- Gonio$20,000
- NGENUITY$17,497
How this compares
$894,808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 191 ophthalmology providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
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.
Other ophthalmology in Salt Lake City
- Robert CionniSalt Lake City$161K
- Zachary ZavodniSalt Lake City$51K
- Majid MoshirfarSalt Lake City$44K
- Marc Steffen Schmitz-ValckenbergSalt Lake City$43K
- Rachel SimpsonSalt Lake City$39K
- Austin NakatsukaSalt Lake City$27K
- Douglas MarxSalt Lake City$22K
- Akbar ShakoorSalt Lake City$18K
- Craig ChayaSalt Lake City$17K
- Amy LinSalt Lake City$15K
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.