Andrew Veitch, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1447266937
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (47.8%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC accounts for 61.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 78 payments — averaging $86.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$4K
- Alliance Medical$1K
- Stryker$308
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$251
- Zimmer Biomet$184
- Impactortho, Inc.$176
- plus $502 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,24148%
- Food & beverage$2,33334%
- Education$1,20018%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 20 | $4,166 |
| Alliance Medical | 14 | $1,187 |
| Stryker | 4 | $308 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $251 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $184 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 7 | $176 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $151 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $140 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $66 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 7 | $65 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. 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.
How this compares
$6,774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 107 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Mexico.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Albuquerque
- Deana MercerAlbuquerque$901K
- David ChafeyAlbuquerque$108K
- Heather MenzerAlbuquerque$61K
- Ernesto Otero LopezAlbuquerque$50K
- Rick GehlertAlbuquerque$46K
- Jeffrey BeckenbaughAlbuquerque$46K
- Matthew WhartonAlbuquerque$22K
- Jeffrey RaccaAlbuquerque$20K
- Michael ArchibeckAlbuquerque$19K
- Samer KakishAlbuquerque$15K
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.