Matthew Baron, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Phoenix, AZNPI 1487074142
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Si-bone, Inc. at 52.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,566 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $41 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $7,192.
Across 29 payments — averaging $138.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$988
- Johnson & Johnson$303
- Smith+Nephew$271
- Curvafix, Inc.$128
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$59
- plus $169 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,10052%
- Travel & lodging$41810%
- Food & beverage$1,50037%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $2,100 |
| Stryker | 10 | $988 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $303 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $271 |
| Curvafix, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Merck | 2 | $41 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$2,100
- PELVIS II$557
- HOFFMANN$149
- Regeneten$147
- LENS Surgical Imaging System$147
- Healicoil$147
- CurvaFix IM Implant$128
- EVOS$125
- VA-LCP$121
- NA$101
How this compares
$4,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 30 orthopaedic trauma providers in Arizona.
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.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Phoenix
- Andrew AdamczykPhoenix$17K
- Kathryn MetcalfPhoenix$13K
- John TidwellPhoenix$7K
- Sara ShinPhoenix$5K
- Jennifer WoodPhoenix$4K
- Eli SwansonPhoenix$3K
- Amanda WrightPhoenix$2K
- Navid ZiranPhoenix$869
- Edward LuceroPhoenix$410
- Jason LoweTucson$270K
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.