Joel Matta
Orthopaedic Surgery · Vail, CONPI 1982747549
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (45.2%), speaking fees and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 88.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,799,603 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $1,499,802 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO 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 402 payments — averaging $52,233 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$18.6M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2.2M
- Zimmer Biomet$82K
- Medtronic$52K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$47K
- Synthes GmbH$4K
- plus $4K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$9,493,31445%
- Consulting fees$385,6212%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,389,27245%
- Travel & lodging$54,6790%
- Food & beverage$7,2080%
- Education$70,1250%
- Gifts$5130%
- Other$1,596,8328%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 35 | $18,561,002 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 204 | $2,247,502 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 71 | $81,687 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $51,822 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 41 | $47,416 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $3,728 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $2,883 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $1,360 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
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
$20,997,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Vail
- Andrew GeeslinVail$211K
- Marc PhilipponVail$196K
- Craig HaytmanekVail$182K
- Jonathan GodinVail$102K
- Matthew VopatVail$50K
- John ApostolakosVail$48K
- Joseph RuzbarskyVail$45K
- Richard AmendolaVail$39K
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.