Matthew Freeman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1457841447
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $20,000 of the $29,554 with a category attached, or 67.7%. Arthrex accounts for 75.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,247 and has fallen 89.3% since, to $2,175 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NE 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.
Across 75 payments — averaging $394.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$22K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$349
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$155
- Vericel Corporation$91
- plus $16 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$20,00068%
- Travel & lodging$4,26814%
- Food & beverage$2,5379%
- Education$2,7499%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 27 | $22,441 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $3,785 |
| Stryker | 24 | $2,717 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $349 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 5 | $155 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $91 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,225
- SALVATION$537
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$243
- PELVIS II$170
- INSPACE$151
- OMEGA$151
How this compares
$29,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 155 orthopaedic surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 19 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lincoln
- Benjamin WoodheadLincoln$48K
- Lukas HashemLincoln$25K
- David SamaniLincoln$22K
- Matthew ByingtonLincoln$10K
- Nickolas van RoekelLincoln$9K
- Dane ToddLincoln$9K
- Steven WahlmeierLincoln$9K
- Brandon SeifertLincoln$7K
- Todd SekundiakElkhorn$7.3M
- Heber CrockettKearney$4.2M
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.