Kathryn Hecker, MD
Ophthalmology · Greensboro, NCNPI 1992744437
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 126 payments — averaging $38.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$366
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$364
- AbbVie$362
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$334
- Amgen$296
- plus $2K from 22 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $30.00 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.
- Notal Vision, Inc.$360
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1112%
- Food & beverage$4,36391%
- Education$1002%
- Gifts$190%
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 | $1,070 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $366 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 25 | $364 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $362 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 4 | $334 |
| Amgen | 9 | $296 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $289 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $245 |
| Novartis | 5 | $183 |
| Omeros Corporation | 4 | $173 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $146 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $129 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DEXTENZA$713
- ARGOS$232
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY IOL$217
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$125
- Clareon$125
- Izervay$125
- ACTHAR$125
- OMIDRIA$125
- TEPEZZA$124
- Syfovre$123
- Rhopressa$122
- Rocklatan$122
- iStent Infinite$113
- iDoseTR$113
- ForeseeHome$111
- AcrySof$108
- TORIC$101
- ENVISTA$101
How this compares
$4,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 19 | $30,415 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 64 | $1,522 |
| Latanoprost | 110 | $1,290 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 57 | $1,281 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 18 | $927 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 28 | $420 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 74 | $395 |
| Timolol Maleate | 11 | $196 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis | $362 | $30,41519 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.
Other ophthalmology in Greensboro
- Karl StonecipherGreensboro$893K
- Paula PecenGreensboro$37K
- Derek DelmonteGreensboro$27K
- 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
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.