Sylvie El Hage
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1801287727
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 283 payments — averaging $38.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$3K
- Alcon$2K
- Harrow Eye, LLC$726
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$624
- AbbVie$539
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$494
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5005%
- Travel & lodging$8958%
- Food & beverage$9,33486%
- Entertainment$781%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 75 | $3,359 |
| Alcon | 79 | $2,482 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 28 | $726 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 11 | $624 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $539 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 17 | $494 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $326 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 6 | $320 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $298 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 10 | $262 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $260 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $258 |
| Novartis | 9 | $193 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 5 | $140 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $122 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 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.
- Acuvue$1,456
- DAILIES TOTAL1$607
- Precision 1$607
- AIR OPTIX$500
- Air Optix plus HydraGlyde$500
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$500
- DAILIES$387
- XIIDRA$339
- Clariti Contact Lens$258
- CEQUA$241
- MIEBO$227
- Precision7$207
- KXL System$191
- Photrexa$191
- TearCare SmartLid$145
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$145
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$135
- MyDay Contact Lens$134
- BIOTRUE$125
- ULTRA$125
How this compares
$10,808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Kathryn RichdaleHouston$288K
- Nancy StephensHouston$241K
- Jelita Green-DathorneHouston$232K
- Eric RitcheyHouston$151K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.