Alexander Meininger, MD
Sports Medicine · Steamboat Springs, CONPI 1730375940
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,060 of the $37,638 with a category attached, or 85.2%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. at 55.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,934 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $6,901 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $1107.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$21K
- Vericel Corporation$10K
- Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$5K
- Aesculap Biologics, LLC$308
- Stryker$163
- Encore Medical, LP$162
- plus $595 from 9 others
Across 26 payments — averaging $3485.30 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.
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$72K
- Aesculap Biologics, LLC$19K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32,06085%
- Travel & lodging$3,97111%
- Food & beverage$1,6084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 3 | $20,817 |
| Vericel Corporation | 11 | $10,393 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 1 | $5,200 |
| Aesculap Biologics, LLC | 2 | $308 |
| Stryker | 1 | $163 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $162 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Cartiheal (2009) LTD. | 1 | $100 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $98 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Orthalign Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $29 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $22 |
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$10,241
- NOVOCART 3D$308
- ACCOLADE$163
- TRIATHLON$163
- TRIDENT$163
- MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$161
- AGILI-C$100
How this compares
$37,638 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 196 sports medicine providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 31 | $587 |
| Celecoxib | 32 | $583 |
| Meloxicam | 99 | $518 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $180 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 23 | $144 |
| Amoxicillin | 18 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Steamboat Springs
- Peter MillettVail$21.6M
- Matthew ProvencherVail$3.4M
- Rachel FrankAurora$1.6M
- David WeinsteinColorado Springs$1.5M
- Alan NgDenver$1.4M
- James GenuarioParker$720K
- David SchneiderGolden$709K
- Christopher JonesColorado Springs$632K
- Randall ViolaVail$551K
- Edward StollWheat Ridge$265K
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.