Paul Forsyth
Optometrist · Raleigh, NCNPI 1104911635
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $34,300 of the $56,215 with a category attached, or 61.0%. Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC accounts for 74.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $23,643 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $477 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 201 payments — averaging $279.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$42K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$11K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Alcon$628
- Glaukos Corporation$146
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$121
- plus $523 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,5006%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,30061%
- Travel & lodging$10,74319%
- Food & beverage$7,67214%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 104 | $41,946 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 62 | $10,678 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 16 | $2,173 |
| Alcon | 7 | $628 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $146 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $86 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Novartis | 2 | $29 |
| Shire North American Group 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.
- INFUSE$23,123
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$21,605
- BIOTRUE$20,868
- ULTRA$20,750
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$4,725
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$1,313
- Precision 1$321
- MyDay Contact Lens$242
- PHOTREXA CROSS-LINKING KIT$146
- MIEBO$120
- XIIDRA$120
- MiSight Contact Lens$115
- Acuvue$114
- TOTAL30$110
- BTOD$107
- TYRVAYA$100
How this compares
$56,215 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 Raleigh
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
- Darryl GloverRaleigh$44K
- Balpreet SohiRaleigh$12K
- Kiarash BassiriRaleigh$11K
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Ryan CorteAsheville$569K
- Sanjay PatelApex$518K
- Rachael WrubleBelmont$228K
- Lisa GreeneArden$186K
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.