William Athans, OD
Optometrist · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1417902156
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 47.6% of the total.
Across 60 payments — averaging $58.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Alcon$852
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$274
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$132
- AbbVie$84
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$78
- plus $411 from 11 others
Across 117 payments — averaging $37.69 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Notal Vision, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,56645%
- Food & beverage$1,93355%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $1,667 |
| Alcon | 19 | $852 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $274 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $77 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Novartis | 2 | $40 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Clariti Contact Lens$1,566
- Clareon$293
- Precision7$146
- Prokera$132
- AmnioGraft$132
- DAILIES TOTAL1$125
- INFUSE$125
How this compares
$3,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 86 | $42,548 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 23 | $20,263 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 33 | $11,242 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 16 | $7,057 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 49 | $6,992 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 83 | $6,314 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 15 | $4,914 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 26 | $3,598 |
| Travoprost | 19 | $3,185 |
| Fluorometholone | 17 | $2,382 |
| Latanoprost | 152 | $2,043 |
| Timolol Maleate | 55 | $1,940 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 35 | $1,595 |
| Tobramycin | 40 | $258 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 12 | $240 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Alphagan P, Combigan | $84 | $81,110158 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $852 | $4,91415 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 80th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
Other optometrist in Pinehurst
- 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
- 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.