Matthew Link, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Augusta, GANPI 1912050113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $50.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3K
- Smith+Nephew$788
- Amgen$533
- Johnson & Johnson$191
- Dynasplint Systems Inc.$103
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$99
- plus $448 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2806%
- Food & beverage$2,22546%
- Education$2,28448%
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 | 7 | $2,626 |
| Smith+Nephew | 18 | $788 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 37 | $533 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $191 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $93 |
| ERMI LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $54 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $46 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$4,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 654 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 141 | $894 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $158 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $109 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $73 |
| Amoxicillin | 13 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Augusta
- Stephen ParadaAugusta$699K
- Lynn CrosbyAugusta$536K
- John DevineAugusta$331K
- Uzondu AgochukwuAugusta$194K
- Nathan KukowskiAugusta$108K
- John MartellAugusta$91K
- Nicholas CapitoAugusta$83K
- Charles DecookCumming$48.3M
- Ormonde MahoneyAthens$10.8M
- Daxes BanitWarner Robins$5.7M
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.