Record · Provider
Joel Matta
Vail, CO. NPI 1982747549. Orthopaedic Surgery.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $21.0 million
- General payments
- $20,997,562
- 402 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $0
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $1.4 million
- Ownership and investment
- $1,350,000
- The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.
How this compares
- General payments: $20,997,562, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 12th among the 20,663 profiles with general payments in Orthopaedic Surgery.
General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 33rd of 1,688,859 In Colorado 2nd of 30,032 In Orthopaedic Surgery 12th of 20,663 Profiles below it nationally More than 99% Share of the national total 0.1% - Ownership and investment: $1,350,000, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 16th among the 475 profiles with ownership or investment interests in Orthopaedic Surgery.
Ownership and investment: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 108th of 3,979 In Colorado 7th of 81 In Orthopaedic Surgery 16th of 475 Profiles below it nationally More than 97% Share of the national total 0.1%
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty or License | $9.5 million$9,493,314 |
| Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program | $9.4 million$9,377,672 |
| Acquisitions | $1.6 million$1,596,832 |
| Consulting Fee | $385,621 |
| Education | $70,125 |
| Travel and Lodging | $54,679 |
| Honoraria | $9,600 |
| Food and Beverage | $7,208 |
| Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program | $2,000 |
| Gift | $513 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.5 million$1,499,802 | $0 |
| 2024 | $2.2 million$2,225,869 | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.6 million$1,644,522 | $0 |
| 2022 | $1.5 million$1,495,065 | $0 |
| 2021 | $3.0 million$3,034,086 | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.3 million$2,298,614 | $0 |
| 2019 | $8.8 million$8,799,603 | $0 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1982747549
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Licensed in
- CA
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Physician
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
CMS holds no Part D record for NPI 1982747549 in the most recent year we hold, and that has two readings it does not distinguish between: this provider billed Medicare Part D for nothing that year, or they billed it for ten claims or fewer, which CMS removes from the file before publishing to protect the patients behind them. It does not mean the data is missing, and it does not mean this provider writes no prescriptions — anything paid for privately, by Medicaid, or by a patient is not in this file at all.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in Colorado — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Rankings this appears in
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
Compiled automatically from Open Payments — payments grouped by physician by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built