Amit Agarwala, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Golden, CONPI 1154383131
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,485 of the $3,383 with a category attached, or 73.5%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 32.5% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $28,402.
Across 45 payments — averaging $75.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Globus Medical$898
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$373
- Medtronic$239
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$185
- Si-bone, Inc.$173
- plus $415 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$89827%
- Food & beverage$2,48573%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 11 | $1,100 |
| Globus Medical | 14 | $898 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $373 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $239 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $185 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $122 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Nanohive Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$403
- SERRATO$390
- Other - Miscellaneous$351
- Invictus MIS$248
- ZYFUSE$196
- CD HORIZON$139
- MagnetOs$128
- DBM$106
- IdentiTi$103
- LIF$103
- VESUVIUS$102
- VITOSS$102
- BIO4$102
How this compares
$3,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 28 | $289 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $83 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Golden
- Lonnie LoutzenhiserGolden$201K
- William StollGolden$11K
- George FreyDenver$5.3M
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
- Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
- Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
- Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
- Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
- Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K
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.