Andrew Apple, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Denver, CONPI 1255712568
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $101.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$6K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Stryker$657
- Smith+Nephew$308
- Medtronic$272
- plus $573 from 8 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $3795.31 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.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$15K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,89045%
- Food & beverage$6,02855%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 37 | $6,152 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 26 | $1,496 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 16 | $1,461 |
| Stryker | 10 | $657 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $308 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $272 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $193 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $123 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$5,221
- GMK SPHERE$635
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$590
- DJO SURGICAL$440
- MPO Hip System$300
- AXSOS$175
- Channel Drain$146
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$138
- MAKO$137
- O-ARM$136
- UNID_PASS$136
- NEXTAR$125
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$114
- DJO Surgical CLP Hip System$114
- DJO Surgical Cobalt HV Bone Cement$114
- GMK REVISION$110
- Irrisept$110
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$104
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$104
How this compares
$10,918 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 47 | $414 |
| Mupirocin | 38 | $281 |
| Meloxicam | 84 | $254 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $251 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 38 | $191 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $149 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $94 |
| Diazepam | 11 | $38 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $25 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Denver
- Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.7M
- Benjamin SearsDenver$907K
- Todd MinerDenver$640K
- Harold HuntDenver$179K
- Wayne GersoffDenver$164K
- Catherine LoganDenver$93K
- David HahnDenver$77K
- Joshua ParryDenver$71K
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.