Matthew Tao, MD
Sports Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1366733768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $104,075 of the $160,414 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Vericel Corporation accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $68,412 and has fallen 62.8% since, to $25,417 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in NY 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 164 payments — averaging $978.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$155K
- Newclip USA LLC$3K
- Arthrex$846
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$781
- RSW Medical Company, Inc.$432
- Moximed, Inc$213
- plus $355 from 4 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $22,808 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.
- Moximed, Inc$68K
Across 1 payment — averaging $4571.20 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Overture Orthopaedics$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,53720%
- Speaking & faculty fees$104,07565%
- Travel & lodging$20,00512%
- Food & beverage$3,9972%
- Education$7810%
- Entertainment$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 138 | $154,744 |
| Newclip USA LLC | 3 | $3,042 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $846 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $781 |
| RSW Medical Company, Inc. | 1 | $432 |
| Moximed, Inc | 2 | $213 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $139 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Kinex Medical Company LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Overture Orthopaedics | 2 | $36 |
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.
- MACI$146,336
- MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$188
- Regeneten$139
How this compares
$160,414 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 403 sports medicine 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 sports medicine in New York
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
- Eric StraussNew York$241K
- Michael FuNew York$210K
- Michael AlaiaNew York$207K
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.