Naheed Kassam
Optometrist · Durham, NCNPI 1356382469
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,392 of the $33,805 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Alcon accounts for 73.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $21,169 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $882 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NC 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 84 payments — averaging $402.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$25K
- Coopervision Inc.$7K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$561
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$353
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$227
- LKC Technologies, Inc.$128
- plus $118 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,39275%
- Travel & lodging$3,98612%
- Food & beverage$4,33113%
- Entertainment$950%
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 | 32 | $24,984 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 35 | $7,434 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $561 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $353 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $227 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $23 |
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.
- Precision 1$23,971
- TOTAL30$22,225
- DAILIES TOTAL1$9,725
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$7,000
- CVI Contact Lens$2,761
- Clariti Contact Lens$1,667
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$1,645
- AIR OPTIX Aqua Multifocal$1,500
- Air Optix Color$1,500
- INFUSE$354
- MyDay Contact Lens$337
- ULTRA$335
- Precision7$295
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$189
- Acuvue$143
- DAILIES$134
- MiSight Contact Lens$115
How this compares
$33,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist 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.
Other optometrist in Durham
- Mark NewmanDurham$43K
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Ryan CorteAsheville$569K
- Sanjay PatelApex$518K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
- Rachael WrubleBelmont$228K
- Lisa GreeneArden$186K
- Jennifer LyerlyMorrisville$164K
- Timothy PoirierKnightdale$130K
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.