Has Matthew Belton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,621 in general payments to Matthew Belton, MD across 104 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 Belton, 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 Matthew Belton, 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.

Matthew Belton, MD

Hand Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1457746323

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,992 and has fallen 56.4% since, to $1,743 in 2025.

$11,621in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $111.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$2K
Acumed LLC$2K
Stryker$2K
Smith+Nephew$1K
Sonex Health, Inc.$1K
Zimmer Biomet$874
plus $3K from 17 others

$7,185in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $7185.22 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Acumed LLC$7K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$500%
Travel & lodging$2,56822%
Food & beverage$6,71858%
Education$2,28520%

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
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	6	$2,367
Acumed LLC	12	$1,761
Stryker	24	$1,551
Smith+Nephew	7	$1,213
Sonex Health, Inc.	6	$1,030
Zimmer Biomet	12	$874
Medartis Inc.	2	$624
Arthrex	9	$601
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$239
Trice Medical, Inc.	4	$227
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	2	$226
Kerecis Limited	1	$221
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$177
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$162
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$151
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$44
Endo USA, Inc.	2	$30
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	1	$29
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$29
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$18
Curonix LLC	1	$16
BREG, Inc	1	$16
Axogen	1	$15

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

$11,621 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 72 hand surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$143,238

Medicare patients

300

Services billed

3,763

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	36	$107

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Winthrop LockwoodAurora$7K
Amy FenoglioAurora$7K
Andrew MaertensAurora$4K
Craig DavisAurora$2K
Francis ScottAurora$523
In YiLonetree$232K
Steven TopperColorado Springs$158K
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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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