Matthew Black, MD
Transplant Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1518313824
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,530 of the $2,285 with a category attached, or 66.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 22 payments — averaging $103.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Stryker$225
- Davol Inc.$147
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$125
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$97
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$35
- plus $78 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,53067%
- Food & beverage$43319%
- Education$32214%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,578 |
| Stryker | 1 | $225 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,447
- Phasix Mesh$147
- THYMOGLOBULIN$125
How this compares
Too few transplant surgery providers in Kentuckyto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 11 | $51 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other transplant surgery in Lexington
- Alejandro Cracco MahechaLexington$5K
- Malay ShahLexington$5K
- Meera GuptaLexington$3K
- Siddharth DesaiLexington$3K
- Alexandre AnchetaLexington$3K
- Erin MaynardLexington$536
- Roberto GedalyLexington$135
- Eric DavisLouisville$78K
- Christopher JonesLouisville$34K
- Mary EngLouisville$6K
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.