Matthew Hazzard, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lawrenceville, GANPI 1184858292
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,560 of the $22,013 with a category attached, or 79.8%. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spine Wave, Inc. at 43.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,220 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $369 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $222.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spine Wave, Inc.$10K
- Clariance SAS$4K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$3K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- Clariance, Inc.$545
- Medtronic$498
- plus $2K from 25 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $950.00 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.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$950
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,56080%
- Travel & lodging$9004%
- Food & beverage$3,36215%
- Education$1921%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 18 | $9,601 |
| Clariance SAS | 5 | $3,838 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 4 | $3,379 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 8 | $2,313 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 3 | $545 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $498 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 2 | $237 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $165 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $140 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $112 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Abbott | 5 | $101 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $100 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $96 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $80 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $44 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $44 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $10 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- Spinal Implants$4,725
- STALIF C FLX$2,379
- Expandable TLIF$1,950
- STALIF M FLX$1,000
- Erisma-LP MIS$500
- ASCENT;ASCENT LE;FIREBIRD SFS;ICON SFS;SFS$492
- Fixation$400
- Anterior Fusion$336
- PILLAR SA PTC$229
- Blackhawk$223
- Tiger Shark$223
- Blackbird$223
- Tomcat$223
- VEO$223
- VECTRIS$162
- INTELLIS$159
- dualX and DualPortal$131
- M6-C$126
- ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$101
How this compares
$22,013 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 30 | $331 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $312 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $242 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lawrenceville
- Robert AyerLawrenceville$19K
- Christopher BanerjeeLawrenceville$19K
- Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
- John CowanRome$3.2M
- Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
- Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
- Daniel RefaiAtlanta$1.2M
- Gerald RodtsAtlanta$1.2M
- Betsy GrunchGainesville$1.1M
- James RobinsonAtlanta$993K
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.