Christopher Stockburger, MD
Hand Surgery · Fort Collins, CONPI 1336585942
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,720 of the $2,258 with a category attached, or 76.2%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exactech, Inc. at 48.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,164 and has fallen 86.3% since, to $159 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $4,155.
Across 29 payments — averaging $77.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exactech, Inc.$1K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$465
- Stryker$450
- Zimmer Biomet$94
- Merck$74
- Smith+Nephew$46
- plus $39 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$53824%
- Food & beverage$1,72076%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exactech, Inc. | 3 | $1,090 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 6 | $465 |
| Stryker | 7 | $450 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $94 |
| Merck | 4 | $74 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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
$2,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 72 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 14 | $144 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $115 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $61 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Fort Collins
- Cara ThorneFort Collins$19K
- Riikka KosoFort Collins$14K
- Bret PetersonFort Collins$2K
- Fraser LeversedgeAurora$326K
- In YiLonetree$232K
- Steven TopperColorado Springs$158K
- Carlton ClinkscalesEnglewood$131K
- Ryan EndressLone Tree$80K
- Louis CatalanoAurora$61K
- William RungeColorado Springs$50K
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.