Paul Balliet, OD
Optometrist · Bismarck, NDNPI 1174560080
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $1,500 of the $2,407 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Alcon accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,676, 2.9 times the $584 reported in 2019. 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.
Across 16 payments — averaging $150.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$500
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$216
- Glaukos Corporation$27
- Dompe US, Inc.$20
- Novartis$20
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50021%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50062%
- Food & beverage$40717%
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 | $1,611 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $500 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $216 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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$1,500
- Non-Product Brand Specific$500
- MIEBO$101
- XIIDRA$101
How this compares
$2,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 179 optometrist providers in North Dakota.
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 | 39 | $852 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 22 | $273 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Bismarck
- Danelle MochBismarck$1K
- Steven TowleBismarck$1K
- Thomas HanstedBismarck$1K
- Kyle OttesonBismarck$934
- Brian BeattieBismarck$926
- Wesley SchwartzBismarck$752
- Krista HeilBismarck$644
- Timothy TelloBismarck$639
- Kellen PathroffBismarck$633
- Brooke MesserWest Fargo$263K
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.