Matthew Alpert
Optometrist · Woodland Hills, CANPI 1396765277
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,093 of the $8,218 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Alcon accounts for 69.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,988 and has fallen 83.9% since, to $482 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 143 payments — averaging $57.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$6K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$237
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$170
- Coopervision Inc.$166
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$157
- plus $382 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$83010%
- Travel & lodging$1,25815%
- Food & beverage$6,09374%
- Education$180%
- Gifts$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 73 | $5,694 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 45 | $1,413 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 3 | $237 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 4 | $170 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 7 | $166 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Staar Surgical Company | 1 | $102 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Menicon America Inc | 1 | $74 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Precision 1$1,455
- AIR OPTIX$1,242
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$783
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$783
- DAILIES$721
- DAILIES TOTAL1$500
- Acuvue$472
- Precision7$240
- Clareon$141
- INFUSE$139
- Precision 7$131
- Contact Lens$124
- TOTAL30$108
- IOL$102
How this compares
$8,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 11 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Woodland Hills
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
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.