Matthew Phillips, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Buffalo, NYNPI 1629042239
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $27,206 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $1,246 in 2025.
Across 112 payments — averaging $735.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$56K
- Stryker$26K
- Zimmer Biomet$350
- Johnson & Johnson$185
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$115
- Baxter Healthcare$86
- plus $137 from 5 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $1638.13 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.
- Stryker$20K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,80026%
- Speaking & faculty fees$46,62557%
- Travel & lodging$8,70611%
- Food & beverage$5,2086%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 49 | $55,618 |
| Stryker | 49 | $25,849 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $350 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $185 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $86 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $43 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Abbott | 1 | $22 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- POLARSTEM$49,533
- POLARCUP$41,577
- Anthology$20,822
- OR3O Dual Mobility$19,080
- Tandem$18,231
- MAKO$14,531
- OXINIUM Hip$12,750
- OR3O$12,287
- POLAR3$12,287
- ACCOLADE$7,200
- R3$5,750
- TRIATHLON$2,251
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$1,948
- Journey II XR$1,331
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$1,331
- Legion Revision$1,331
- Navio Surgical System$1,331
- TRITANIUM$800
- SYSTEM 9 CD NXT$610
- Synergy Hip System$461
How this compares
$82,339 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,079 orthopaedic surgery providers in New York.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Buffalo
- Thomas DuquinBuffalo$1.8M
- Christopher HamillBuffalo$1.2M
- Anthony RomeoNew York$26.8M
- Lawrence LenkeNew York$26.8M
- Edwin SuNew York$13.2M
- William RicciNew York$11.6M
- Steven HaasNew York$11.3M
- Giles ScuderiNew York$10.7M
- Joseph ZuckermanNew York$9.9M
- Evan FlatowNew York$9.6M
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.