Has Brett Sachs received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $806,299 in general payments to Brett Sachs across 754 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 Brett Sachs 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 Brett Sachs 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.

Brett Sachs

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Wheat Ridge, CONPI 1932241031

Payments from drug & device makers

$806,299in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 754 payments — averaging $1069.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$322K
Medartis Inc.$164K
Trilliant Surgical LLC.$122K
Linvatec Corporation$54K
Stryker$31K
International Life Sciences$22K
plus $91K from 39 others

$545in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $545.00 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.

Biopoly LLC$545

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$242,28430%
Consulting fees$471,00858%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,9131%
Travel & lodging$48,3006%
Food & beverage$29,0604%
Education$6,7181%
Gifts$170%

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
Zimmer Biomet	451	$322,085
Medartis Inc.	27	$163,636
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	35	$122,162
Linvatec Corporation	36	$53,555
Stryker(2 entities)	41	$31,125
International Life Sciences	12	$22,336
Nextremity Solutions Inc.	6	$17,522
Ossio Inc	3	$13,552
Paragon 28, Inc.	31	$13,194
Tyber Medical, LLC	3	$12,197
Biogennix, LLC	2	$12,000
Acumed LLC	14	$11,710
Synthes GmbH	10	$5,027
Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC	5	$2,199
Medline Industries LP	6	$944
Vilex LLC	3	$621
Smith+Nephew	18	$563
Organogenesis Inc.	5	$277
Ortho Solutions Inc	3	$164
Conmed Corporation	1	$155
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$147
Encore Medical, LP	1	$141
Johnson & Johnson	4	$123
Voom Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$91
Trimed, Inc.	1	$75
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	2	$59
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	2	$55
Access Pro Medical, LLC	2	$53
Bioventus LLC	3	$53
Kerecis Limited	2	$50
Mimedx Group, Inc.	2	$47
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$43
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$39
Exactech, Inc.	1	$37
Acell, Inc.	2	$37
DJO, LLC	2	$31
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	1	$31
Bone Support Inc.	1	$27
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$26
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$22
Axogen	1	$20
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$19
Solventum Corporation	1	$16
Avanos Medical	1	$13

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.

APTUS$163,442
InCore Lapidus$118,766
Lapidus Plate$68,486
BioBrace 23mm$47,311
HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$42,966
Arsenal Sinus Support Plate$29,515
Arsenal Ankle 10 Hole 1/3 Tubular Plate$28,952
Arsenal$28,936
Amnio Repair$22,938
Ziptight Ankle Syndesmosis$21,750
FLEXBAND$20,842
Juggerknot$19,173
Nextremity Nextra Hammertoe$17,938
Alps Plates and Instruments$15,875
Fusion Plate$13,895
Portfolio$12,380
Tyber Medical Anatomical Plating System$12,197
ALPS Plating System$12,197
UNITUS(TM) Staple System$12,197
Trabecular Metal (TM) Ankle$11,987

How this compares

$806,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 181 foot & ankle surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$88,082

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

1,021

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	22	$225
Cephalexin	11	$154
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	11	$112

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Wheat Ridge

Dustin KruseWheat Ridge$221K
Raquel LitherlandWheat Ridge$11K
Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.9M
Thomas ClantonVail$1.6M
Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
Jeffrey LehrmanFort Collins$629K
Kevin NagamaniDenver$288K
Keith JacobsonDenver$241K
William MontrossColorado Springs$239K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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