Has Matthew Stein, OD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,381 in general payments to Matthew Stein, OD across 37 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Matthew Stein, OD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Matthew Stein, OD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Matthew Stein, OD

Optometrist · Fargo, NDNPI 1205501095

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Alcon accounts for 67.8% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,489 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $109 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in ND with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,381in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $64.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$2K
AbbVie$216
Amgen$190
Novartis$93
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$86
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$78
plus $104 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$96440%
Food & beverage$1,41760%

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	8	$1,614
AbbVie(2 entities)	11	$216
Amgen	2	$190
Novartis	4	$93
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	6	$86
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$78
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	2	$43
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$35
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	1	$25

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.

TEPEZZA$119
Precision7$109

How this compares

$2,381 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 179 optometrist providers in North Dakota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$21,775

Medicare patients

124

Services billed

1,413

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	139	$1,928
Prednisolone Acetate	19	$1,125
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	38	$494
Timolol Maleate	29	$204

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Fargo

Melissa McCulleyFargo$6K
Jordan MuirFargo$6K
William RobisonFargo$4K
Adam MotacekFargo$3K
Tracie MalsomFargo$2K
John MariFargo$2K
Nicole CollinsFargo$2K
Michele EricksonFargo$2K
Mason WilnerFargo$2K
Krystal LongFargo$2K

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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.

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