Matthew Burge, MD
Surgery · Prattville, ALNPI 1902169808
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (58.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,706 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $147 in 2025.
Across 39 payments — averaging $175.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Stryker$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$464
- Davol Inc.$91
- Johnson & Johnson$88
- Highridge Medical LLC$82
- plus $216 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,47922%
- Food & beverage$1,38220%
- Education$4,00058%
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 | 8 | $4,592 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,327 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $464 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $88 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $25 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $12 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $12 |
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$4,538
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$482
- CHROMOPHARE F300$397
- 1688$149
How this compares
$6,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 19 | $422 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 70 | $382 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Prattville
- Parham MoraPrattville$16K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
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.