Matthew Pollard, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Las Cruces, NMNPI 1407846728
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $89.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6K
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$610
- Stryker$607
- Vertex$150
- plus $651 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,66433%
- Food & beverage$7,57267%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 44 | $5,896 |
| Abbott | 16 | $1,799 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $1,523 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 10 | $610 |
| Stryker | 12 | $607 |
| Vertex | 5 | $150 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $109 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Amgen | 4 | $64 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ALIF$1,637
- PROCLAIM$1,208
- XLIF$1,059
- ELSA ATP$1,004
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$654
- ETERNA$273
- Sable$188
- Excelsius Robotics System$186
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$173
- Excelsius - GPS$169
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$151
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$151
- VARIAX$143
- PANGEA$143
- O-ARM$142
- Hedron$137
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$125
- DERMABOND PRINEO$110
- VA-LCP$101
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Mexicoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 92 | $1,126 |
| Meloxicam | 159 | $692 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 63 | $593 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $565 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $259 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $156 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Las Cruces
- Douglas OrndorffAlbuquerque$1.4M
- Mark CrawfordAlbuquerque$66K
- Umesh MetkarAlbuquerque$23K
- Urvij ModhiaAlbuquerque$22K
- Andrew PatersonAlbuquerque$15K
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.