Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

LAITH MATALKA

Dental Providers Dentist

NPI
1659046217
CMS profile
9675598
Location
BESSEMER, AL

General Payments · PY2021–2022

$401.43

  • Reported across 13 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2022

$268.58

8 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Entertainment $174.10 2
Food and Beverage $48.60 3
Gift $45.88 3

By paying entity

PY2022 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Straumann USA LLC $268.58 8

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $132.85 5
PY2022 $268.58 8

Payment records · PY2022 (8)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2022 2021 Record-level detail is published for PY2022; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Straumann USA LLC $5.97 01/13/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 913277961 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $34.82 03/18/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 913296867 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $7.81 05/04/2022 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 913312619 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $18.19 06/08/2022 Gift Undisputed 01/23/2026 913323705 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $18.70 06/08/2022 Gift Undisputed 01/23/2026 913323709 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $8.99 06/08/2022 Gift Undisputed 01/23/2026 913323713 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $96.72 06/14/2022 Entertainment Undisputed 01/23/2026 913325621 CMS
Straumann USA LLC $77.38 06/20/2022 Entertainment Undisputed 01/23/2026 913327341 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2021, 2022
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2022_P01232026_01102026.csv

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