Christopher Joyce, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lone Tree, CONPI 1861819112
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $47,375 of the $67,142 with a category attached, or 70.6%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 82.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $25,861, more than ten times the $2,521 reported in 2019.
Across 114 payments — averaging $588.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$55K
- Arthrex$4K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Active Medical, LLC$1K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$586
- plus $873 from 8 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $5227.51 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.$19K
- Stryker$14K
- Arthrex$12K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$47,37571%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,7506%
- Travel & lodging$7,84512%
- Food & beverage$3,3115%
- Education$4,8617%
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 | 72 | $55,395 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $3,866 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 2 | $3,075 |
| Stryker | 21 | $2,127 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 2 | $1,220 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 1 | $586 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $219 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $197 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$735
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$277
- Persona$243
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$152
- AXSOS$151
- MF SETS$151
- EX-FIX$151
- ASNIS$151
- EQUINOXE$150
- NA$149
- T2$146
- VARIAX$133
- PANGEA$127
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$113
- Irrisept$112
- GENESIS II$106
How this compares
$67,142 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 34 | $388 |
| Celecoxib | 27 | $386 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $125 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $99 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $79 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 17 | $77 |
| Meloxicam | 16 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lone Tree
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Mark FitzgeraldLone Tree$235K
- Eric JamrichLone Tree$97K
- John BarkerLone Tree$69K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
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.