Clint Blackwood, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boulder, CONPI 1508905506
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $649,440 of the $767,515 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Stryker accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $162,175 and has fallen 75.4% since, to $39,936 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.
Across 971 payments — averaging $790.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$739K
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
- Encore Medical, LP$6K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$529
- Johnson & Johnson$378
- plus $750 from 8 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $3129.20 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.
- Stryker$56K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$649,44085%
- Travel & lodging$92,54112%
- Food & beverage$25,5343%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 902 | $738,611 |
| Smith+Nephew | 19 | $14,328 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 20 | $7,244 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 9 | $5,675 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $529 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $378 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $323 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 3 | $148 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Vertex | 3 | $76 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $43 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $28 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- MAKO$662,634
- ACCOLADE$52,437
- Journey II$17,364
- AEQUALIS$16,237
- INSIGNIA$14,157
- TRIDENT$13,938
- RESTORATION$13,304
- TRIATHLON$13,037
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$12,304
- MOTIONSENSE DIGITAL GONIOMETER$9,900
- K-15 PORK$8,549
- TRITANIUM$5,100
- SALVATION$4,100
- RIO$3,375
- Verasense$3,102
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$2,000
- DJO SURGICAL$1,996
- EXETER$1,600
- JOURNEY$1,511
- GMRS$1,125
How this compares
$767,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 38 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boulder
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$1.8M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
- Kris AldenBasalt$1.3M
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.