Sanjay Patel
Optometrist · Apex, NCNPI 1093763211
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $134,586, 2.1 times the $63,148 reported in 2019. 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 1,914 payments — averaging $270.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$516K
- Coopervision Inc.$539
- Harrow Eye, LLC$505
- Alcon Research LLC$346
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$145
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$80
- plus $168 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$230,43145%
- Speaking & faculty fees$121,46823%
- Travel & lodging$137,86827%
- Food & beverage$27,9835%
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 | 1,862 | $515,968 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 6 | $539 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 22 | $505 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $346 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $145 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- TOTAL30$291,762
- DAILIES TOTAL1$241,714
- Precision 1$231,866
- Precision7$82,395
- DAILIES$44,904
- AIR OPTIX$16,907
- AIR OPTIX Aqua$5,506
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$4,619
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$1,119
- Systane$813
- Precision 7$730
- MyDay Contact Lens$345
- Pataday$250
- Clariti Contact Lens$107
How this compares
$517,750 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 16 | $10,880 |
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 | $47 | $10,88016 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 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
Other optometrist in Apex
- David HollerApex$76K
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Ryan CorteAsheville$569K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
- Rachael WrubleBelmont$228K
- Lisa GreeneArden$186K
- Jennifer LyerlyMorrisville$164K
- Timothy PoirierKnightdale$130K
- Randall ThomasConcord$126K
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.