Matthew Weldon, MD
Sports Medicine · Cypress, TXNPI 1467712174
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 30.0% of the total. Among sports medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 430 payments — averaging $143.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- Medinc Of Texas$10K
- Arthrex$8K
- DJO, LLC$4K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- plus $6K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2,9175%
- Travel & lodging$18,02429%
- Food & beverage$29,04947%
- Education$11,78319%
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 | 212 | $18,556 |
| Smith+Nephew | 42 | $13,730 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 49 | $10,079 |
| Arthrex | 57 | $7,690 |
| DJO, LLC | 7 | $3,711 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $1,614 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 6 | $1,519 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $940 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 2 | $718 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $490 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 4 | $469 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 4 | $363 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $245 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $167 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $149 |
| Amgen | 2 | $140 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $128 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $62 |
| BD | 1 | $58 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $57 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Q-FIX$3,590
- MAKO$3,070
- VARIAX$2,510
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$2,250
- AETOS Shoulder System$2,230
- PROMOS$2,160
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,150
- Healicoil$2,060
- CAP-FIX$1,898
- NOVOSTITCH$1,898
- T2$1,872
- Mini-Open Latarjet$1,692
- MICRORAPTOR$1,692
- EQUINOXE$1,355
- GAMMA$1,320
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$983
- AXSOS$873
- GRAVITY SYNCHFIX$588
- ACCOLADE$531
- TRIATHLON$522
How this compares
$61,773 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
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 | 32 | $772 |
| Meloxicam | 223 | $496 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 56 | $453 |
| Gabapentin | 71 | $419 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $131 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 33 | $114 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Cypress
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- James GregoryHouston$565K
- John McDonaldAustin$499K
- James McKinleyTyler$305K
- Kelechi OkorohaDallas$297K
- Leon PaulosPearland$289K
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$238K
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.