Has Bharat Desai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,389,765 in general payments to Bharat Desai, MD across 428 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bharat Desai, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bharat Desai, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bharat Desai, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Golden, CONPI 1437111226

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,047,694 of the $1,389,765 with a category attached, or 75.4%. Si-bone, Inc. accounts for 85.7% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $398,019, 5.3 times the $75,159 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,389,765in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 428 payments — averaging $3247.11 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$38K
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$8K
Stryker$5K
Arthrex$5K
plus $3K from 9 others

$16,659in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $5552.89 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.

Zimmer Biomet$17K

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	78	$38,352
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

$1,389,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$133,159

Medicare patients

176

Services billed

800

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

Michael EllmanGolden$243K
Aaron CaspGolden$67K
Jared ForanGolden$65K
Jesse ChrastilGolden$50K
Joel MattaVail$21M
Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M

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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.

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