Has Ricardo Matos, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,119 in general payments to Ricardo Matos, MD across 32 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ricardo Matos, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ricardo Matos, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ricardo Matos, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Lighthouse Point, FLNPI 1134148067

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,119in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $159.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$700
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$185
Si-bone, Inc.$146
Cerapedics Inc.$58
plus $30 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,93077%
Food & beverage$1,18923%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	8	$2,098
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	12	$1,901
Johnson & Johnson	3	$700
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$185
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$146
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$58
Globus Medical	1	$30

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.

How this compares

$5,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$49,049

Medicare patients

102

Services billed

217

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	112	$2,666
Gabapentin	50	$427
Meloxicam	29	$207
Oxycodone Hcl	16	$122
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	18	$120
Pregabalin	12	$101
Tramadol Hcl	25	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Lighthouse Point

Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
Richard HynesMelbourne$35M
Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31.4M
David WatsonTemple Terrace$21M
Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.3M
Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
Steven LyonsTampa$6.8M
Derek CuffVenice$6.6M

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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.

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