Matthew Pifer, MD
Sports Medicine · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1336302231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 423 payments — averaging $608.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$163K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$68K
- Polarityte, Inc.$11K
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- Smith+Nephew$902
- Saxum Surgical, Inc.$765
- plus $3K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$144,50656%
- Speaking & faculty fees$67,98026%
- Travel & lodging$31,90012%
- Food & beverage$12,9995%
- Gifts$980%
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 | 296 | $163,029 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 41 | $67,835 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 7 | $11,248 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 22 | $11,075 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $902 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $765 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $640 |
| Micromed Inc | 6 | $625 |
| Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. | 7 | $463 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 5 | $415 |
| Stryker | 1 | $144 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $68 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 2 | $51 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $13 |
| Team_makena_llc | 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.
- InSet System$67,269
- SkinTE$11,216
- TriCor$9,421
- OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER$2,040
- Comprehensive Primary Stem$797
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS VIP TECHNOLOGY VIP 3D$700
- Endobutton$554
- Mobi-C$456
- ARTHREX$442
- MicroAire$408
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$408
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES BONE REPAIR CELLULAR BONE GRAFTING KIT$400
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS VIP TECHNOLOGY VIP 5D$300
- NA$266
- Fibulink$147
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$146
- Ultrabraid$146
- ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS REVERS TOTAL SHOULDER MODULAR GLENOID SYSTEMS$145
- MAKO$144
- VA-LCP$119
How this compares
$257,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
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 | 102 | $1,056 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 84 | $691 |
| Meloxicam | 270 | $560 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Santa Barbara
- Amit Alexander NathaniSanta Barbara$519K
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
- Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
- Michael FreehillStanford$1.6M
- Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
- Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
- Seth ShermanStanford$1.1M
- Stephan YacoubianBurbank$1M
- Stephen Snydervan Nuys$922K
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.