Christopher Pelt, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1073653036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (48.2%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. accounts for 64.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 213 payments — averaging $2029.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$278K
- Zimmer Biomet$59K
- Smith+Nephew$43K
- KCI USA, Inc.$32K
- Solventum Corporation$20K
- Arthrex$106
- plus $240 from 4 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $6730.69 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$27K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$208,31748%
- Consulting fees$189,70644%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,9755%
- Travel & lodging$8,7312%
- Food & beverage$5,3721%
- Gifts$2370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 70 | $277,968 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 64 | $59,201 |
| Smith+Nephew | 24 | $43,003 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 35 | $31,827 |
| Solventum Corporation | 9 | $19,994 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $106 |
| Stryker | 5 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $80 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- PREVENA$41,442
- Legion Revision$32,000
- Taperloc$19,079
- PREVENA RESTOR ARTHROFORM$18,314
- G7$15,250
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$12,280
- Prevena Restor Bella Form$12,234
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIOFORM$12,014
- PREVENA RESTOR ARTHO-FORM$11,953
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIO-FORM$11,953
- PREVENA RESTOR ROTO-FORM$11,953
- Connected Health-None$11,684
- Connected Health-MyMobility$9,500
- Echo$9,000
- Continuum Shell$6,500
- PREVENA RESTOR BELLAFORM$6,300
- Journey II BCS$5,393
- Journey II$5,363
- CORI$5,250
- Journey II CR$5,250
How this compares
$432,339 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 18 | $623 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $360 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $31 |
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Robert BurksSalt Lake City$355K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
- Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K
- Brandon LawrenceSalt Lake City$144K
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.