Thomas Williams, MD
Ophthalmology · Hickory, NCNPI 1750345443
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 392 payments — averaging $4625.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$1.4M
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$311K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$62K
- Regeneron$28K
- Notal Vision, Inc.$7K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$912%
- Travel & lodging$1,78240%
- Food & beverage$2,55158%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 79 | $1,401,332 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 31 | $311,263 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 24 | $61,992 |
| Regeneron | 9 | $27,806 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 167 | $6,548 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 4 | $1,782 |
| Novartis | 6 | $781 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 16 | $497 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $261 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 11 | $217 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $195 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $171 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 5 | $148 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $73 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Alcon | 1 | $36 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $26 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- SOMATOM Force$1,764
- Non-Covered Product$154
- Tecnis IOL$124
- EYLEA$109
How this compares
$1,813,377 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 37 | $927 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 44 | $275 |
| Latanoprost | 18 | $236 |
| Timolol Maleate | 25 | $158 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Hickory
- James HarrisHickory$1.4M
- Patrick KeltyHickory$1.1M
- Glenn JaffeDurham$38.5M
- Lejla VajzovicDurham$7.5M
- Andrew AntoszykCharlotte$4M
- Majda HadziahmetovicDurham$2.4M
- Preeya GuptaRaleigh$2M
- Rajiv ShahWinston Salem$1.3M
- Julie WoodwardDurham$1M
- James BranchMocksville$938K
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.