Has Christopher Cain, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,323,901 in general payments to Christopher Cain, MD across 281 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 Christopher Cain, 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 Christopher Cain, 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.

Christopher Cain, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Aurora, CONPI 1427367861

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,217,967 of the $3,323,901 with a category attached, or 96.8%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 88.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $761,562 and has fallen 53.8% since, to $351,949 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.

$3,323,901in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 281 payments — averaging $11,829 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$2.9M
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$270K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$120K
Johnson & Johnson$523
Centinel Spine, LLC$110
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.$66
plus $125 from 4 others

$76,988in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $25,663 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$66K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$11K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$3,217,96797%
Consulting fees$85,1963%
Travel & lodging$12,8980%
Food & beverage$7,8050%
Gifts$350%

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
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	30	$2,933,659
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	94	$269,645
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	143	$119,772
Johnson & Johnson	7	$523
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$110
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$66
Theradaptive, Inc.	2	$61
Boston Scientific	1	$25
AbbVie	1	$24
Innovation Technologies Inc	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

$3,323,901 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,500

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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Evalina BurgerAurora$90K
Evan FeneAurora$57K
Kendra LastowkaAurora$51K
Stephen PehlerAurora$42K
Nolan WessellAurora$26K
Collin WalshAurora$9K

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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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