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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $28,788 in general payments to Christopher Johnson, MD across 123 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 Johnson, 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 Johnson, 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 Johnson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Englewood, CONPI 1164917332

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (43.9%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 59.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,497, more than ten times the $120 reported in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $28,402.

$28,788in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $234.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$17K
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$6K
Life Spine, Inc.$2K
Stryker$1K
Medtronic$811
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$299
plus $767 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,95035%
Travel & lodging$12,65144%
Food & beverage$6,18721%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	63	$17,235
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	8	$6,407
Life Spine, Inc.	13	$2,138
Stryker	9	$1,130
Medtronic	9	$811
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	3	$299
Globus Medical	9	$248
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$189
Baxter Healthcare	2	$137
Boston Scientific	2	$85
Carlsmed, Inc.	1	$59
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$34
Theragen, 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.

Other - Miscellaneous$9,461
MagnetOs$6,167
ProLift Lateral$1,694
ProLift Lateral Fixated$938
ProLift Lateral Helo$938
CENTRIC - T RETRACTOR$938
SENTRY LATERAL PLATING SYSTEM$938
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$862
ProLift$755
NorthStar$232
Mariner$232
LIF$199
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$168
MAZOR X SYSTEM$158
MEDTRONIC REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS$158
T2$153
VARIAX$153
DYNA-LINK STAND-ALONE ANTERIOR LUMBAR SYSTEM$150
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$149
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$127

How this compares

$28,788 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$118,802

Medicare patients

135

Services billed

555

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
Gabapentin	26	$216
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$149
Methylprednisolone	20	$145
Methocarbamol	13	$125

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Englewood

Benjamin MitchellEnglewood$9K
Sanjay JatanaEnglewood$4K
George FreyDenver$5.3M
Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K

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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