RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Dietz, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Morgantown, WVNPI 1689885600

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $46,375 of the $59,758 with a category attached, or 77.6%. Heraeus Medical, LLC. accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $25,685 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $333 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$59,758in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $1991.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Heraeus Medical, LLC.$58K
  • Smith+Nephew$688
  • Zimmer Biomet$591
  • Stryker$251
  • Davol Inc.$148
  • Johnson & Johnson$24
$38,522in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $19,261 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.

  • Heraeus Medical, LLC.$38K
  • Stryker$440

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,33014%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$46,37578%
  • Travel & lodging$2,9245%
  • Food & beverage$2,1294%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$59,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 93 orthopaedic surgery providers in West Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,386
Medicare patients
89
Services billed
142

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin34$38

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Morgantown

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