Bharat Desai, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Golden, CONPI 1437111226
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 431 payments — averaging $3263.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$1.2M
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$139K
- Zimmer Biomet$55K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$8K
- Stryker$5K
- Arthrex$5K
- plus $3K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,047,69475%
- Consulting fees$281,29520%
- Travel & lodging$40,1853%
- Food & beverage$15,3901%
- Education$5,2010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 111 | $1,191,480 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 114 | $139,276 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 81 | $55,011 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 13 | $7,688 |
| Stryker | 45 | $5,342 |
| Arthrex | 47 | $4,615 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $1,671 |
| Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc.(2 entities) | 2 | $302 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $220 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| BD | 1 | $129 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $118 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $95 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$938,713
- iFuse Implant$248,732
- Lapiplasty System$121,701
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$13,214
- Alps Elbow$9,460
- Alps Plates and Instruments$6,500
- Trabecular Metal (TM) Ankle$4,500
- Trauma Product Portfolio$2,500
- PROPHECY$2,065
- Lapiplasty$1,253
- Trauma-None$1,250
- Connected Health Product Portfolio$1,173
- Peri-Loc$1,129
- INBONE$871
- INVISION$871
- PROstep$856
- PRIME SERIES$799
- TMC SPEEDTMT$542
- TMC PSI CUT GUIDE SYSTEM$441
- Cadence$203
How this compares
$1,406,423 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Golden
- Jared ForanGolden$1.1M
- Michael EllmanGolden$243K
- Aaron CaspGolden$67K
- Jesse ChrastilGolden$50K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$3.2M
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.