William Lipsky
Ophthalmology · Webster, TXNPI 1407850464
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $3468.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dompe US, Inc.$139K
- Novartis$119K
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$115K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$492
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$218
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$108
- plus $623 from 12 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $5812.50 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.
- Bausch Health US, LLC$12K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,602100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dompe US, Inc. | 7 | $139,493 |
| Novartis | 9 | $119,020 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 8 | $114,675 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 28 | $492 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 18 | $218 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Alcon | 5 | $97 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $88 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 8 | $70 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Akorn, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$374,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 18 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Webster
- Charles WykoffBellaire$73.4M
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- Sunil PatelAbilene$11.1M
- Chirag JhaveriAustin$9.4M
- Robert WongAustin$6.6M
- Fuad MakkoukAustin$6.6M
- Patrick WilliamsArlington$6.6M
- Ashkan AbbeyDallas$5.7M
- Karl CsakyDallas$4.9M
- Michael SingerSan Antonio$4.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.