Matthew Owen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1760827901
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $24,375 of the $38,027 with a category attached, or 64.1%. Arthrex accounts for 69.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $32,818 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $229 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AL 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 80 payments — averaging $475.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$27K
- DJO, LLC$4K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Lima USA, Inc.$653
- plus $882 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$24,37564%
- Travel & lodging$2,8698%
- Food & beverage$3,71010%
- Education$6,97918%
- Gifts$940%
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 | 30 | $26,543 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $4,375 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $2,533 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 9 | $1,584 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 9 | $1,457 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 4 | $653 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $170 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $135 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $90 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Amgen | 4 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $35 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Amniox Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Ascend Flex$644
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$511
- SMR Shoulder$456
- MAKO$143
- Breg VPULSE, PlasmaFlow, PolarCareWave$135
- ATTUNE$125
- SHOULDER IMPLANTS SWIVELOCKS COMPOSITE ANCHORS$122
- PHYSICA CR$120
- Healicoil$111
- Q-FIX$111
- Coblation Wands$111
How this compares
$38,027 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 319 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 245 | $2,014 |
| Methocarbamol | 128 | $1,273 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 113 | $531 |
| Cephalexin | 92 | $294 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $172 |
| Meloxicam | 65 | $157 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $73 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 14 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Daniel KimBirmingham$147K
- Eugene BrabstonBirmingham$117K
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.