Craig Yager, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1710249107
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $162.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$5K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$5K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Alliance Medical$516
- Zimmer Biomet$208
- plus $427 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,68511%
- Food & beverage$3,57124%
- Education$9,39864%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 12 | $5,036 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 6 | $4,617 |
| Arthrex | 19 | $1,948 |
| Stryker | 24 | $1,902 |
| Alliance Medical | 9 | $516 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $208 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $59 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $36 |
| Abbott | 2 | $34 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ACCOLADE$547
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$476
- TRIATHLON$285
- ROSA$177
- MAKO$146
How this compares
$14,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 95 | $1,010 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 35 | $501 |
| Celecoxib | 26 | $414 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 43 | $382 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Colorado Springs
- Michael HuangColorado Springs$733K
- Douglas CrowtherColorado Springs$314K
- Sean KellyColorado Springs$149K
- William CicconeColorado Springs$111K
- Gary SimpsonColorado Springs$71K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.7M
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.