Matthew Richards, MD
Surgery · Rehoboth Beach, DENPI 1003255332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.3% of the total across 51 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $657, more than ten times the $13 reported in 2019.
Across 51 payments — averaging $38.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$267
- Intuitive Surgical$193
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$184
- AstraZeneca$162
- Lilly USA, LLC$160
- Endologix LLC$130
- plus $885 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,78890%
- Education$19310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 4 | $267 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $193 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $184 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $162 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $160 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $130 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $73 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $58 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Merck | 2 | $55 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $49 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Menarini Silicon Biosystems, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $25 |
| BD | 1 | $21 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $14 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Eisai 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$193
- Savi SCOUT$184
- 1788$152
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$130
- LYNPARZA$125
How this compares
$1,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 89 surgery providers in Delaware.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 32 | $77 |
| Gabapentin | 39 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Rehoboth Beach
- Karen BarbosaRehoboth Beach$60K
- M Lisa AtteberyRehoboth Beach$22K
- Dakota UrbanRehoboth Beach$2K
- Peter SantoroWilmington$166K
- Lydell LettsomeDover$32K
- Erik StancofskiLewes$19K
- Mark FaccioloLewes$17K
- Veronica Bustillo-ArucaNewark$15K
- Barath KrishnanDover$15K
- David CloneyMilford$13K
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.