Has Bradford Matthews, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,128 in general payments to Bradford Matthews, MD across 92 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 Bradford Matthews, MD 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 Bradford Matthews, MD 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.

Bradford Matthews, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Ft Wainwright, AKNPI 1063523959

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.7%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 50.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,341 and has fallen 89.4% since, to $458 in 2025.

$10,128in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $110.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$5K
Arthrex$4K
Active Medical, LLC$1K
Vericel Corporation$169
Johnson & Johnson$58
Smith+Nephew$29

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,12441%
Food & beverage$2,52025%
Education$3,46834%
Entertainment$160%

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
Zimmer Biomet	70	$5,091
Arthrex	7	$3,500
Active Medical, LLC	5	$1,280
Vericel Corporation	7	$169
Johnson & Johnson	2	$58
Smith+Nephew	1	$29

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.

How this compares

$10,128 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 63 orthopaedic surgery providers in Alaska.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$23,880

Medicare patients

Services billed

602

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
Celecoxib	11	$366
Meloxicam	47	$132

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Erik WoelberJuneau$18K
Jason GrayAnchorage$17K
Ian BrimhallAnchorage$17K
Thomas PaynterAnchorage$14K

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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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