Has Kathleen Leone, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,759 in general payments to Kathleen Leone, MD across 83 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 Kathleen Leone, 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 Kathleen Leone, 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.

Kathleen Leone, MD

Ophthalmology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1306937768

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,759in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $93.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$2K
Rxsight Inc$2K
Staar Surgical Company$914
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$402
Harrow Eye, LLC$276
Microsurgical Technology, Inc.$276
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,50019%
Travel & lodging$81811%
Food & beverage$5,44170%

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
Alcon	23	$2,076
Rxsight Inc	4	$1,776
Staar Surgical Company	6	$914
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	4	$402
Harrow Eye, LLC	3	$276
Microsurgical Technology, Inc.	2	$276
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	4	$259
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	3	$232
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	2	$187
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$183
Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited	11	$145
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$145
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$145
Amgen	1	$124
Glaukos Corporation	3	$113
Medline Industries LP	1	$109
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$105
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$76
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$66
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	2	$59
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$39
Dompe US, Inc.	1	$30
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	1	$22

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.

RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$1,500
LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$1,500
RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$1,500
RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$1,500
RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$1,500
IOL$728
AcrySof$554
AcrySof IQ PanOptix UV IOL$270
LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL) AND LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$256
VEVYE$248
INVELTYS$145
EYSUVIS$145
IOLMaster 500$133
VisuMax$127
TEPEZZA$124
AcrySof IQ PanOptix$122
CIRRUS HD-OCT$121
CEQUA$118
Tecnis Simplicity$115
VERITAS Vision System$115

How this compares

$7,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$282,581

Medicare patients

363

Services billed

2,606

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
Ketorolac Tromethamine	63	$1,229
Prednisolone Acetate	43	$1,199
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	29	$720

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Wilmington

Clark SpringsWilmington$300K
Leon CharkoudianWilmington$112K
Robert van der VaartWilmington$50K
Glenn JaffeDurham$38.5M
Lejla VajzovicDurham$7.5M
Andrew AntoszykCharlotte$4M
Majda HadziahmetovicDurham$2.4M
Preeya GuptaRaleigh$2M
Thomas WilliamsHickory$1.8M
James HarrisHickory$1.4M

See the full list for North Carolina →

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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