David Chafey, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1326272584
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $66,275 of the $108,444 with a category attached, or 61.1%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 90.6% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NM 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 201 payments — averaging $539.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$98K
- Synthes GmbH$6K
- Stryker$2K
- Globus Medical$724
- Zimmer Biomet$471
- Amgen$244
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,17517%
- Speaking & faculty fees$66,27561%
- Travel & lodging$13,88213%
- Food & beverage$10,1129%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 132 | $98,261 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $5,612 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,545 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $724 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $471 |
| Amgen | 2 | $244 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 4 | $210 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 3 | $200 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 3 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $151 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| US Implant Solutions, LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $60 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 3 | $33 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $26 |
| Axogen | 1 | $23 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 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.
- EVOS$93,394
- EVOS MINI$33,797
- TRIGEN InterTAN$24,500
- ILIZAROV$12,400
- TRIGEN$10,998
- CANNULATED SCREWS$10,863
- TRIGEN Femoral (FAN/TAN/Meta Nail)$9,744
- TRIGEN Meta-Nail$7,800
- Taylor Spatial Frame$6,806
- JET-X Mini$1,159
- NONE$1,134
- Ilizarov System$689
- MAGNUM$518
- Journey II$361
- TRIGEN Humeral Nail System$359
- Anthem$316
- EVENITY$244
- REGRANEX$240
- PHOENIX$188
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$180
How this compares
$108,444 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 107 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Mexico.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Albuquerque
- Deana MercerAlbuquerque$901K
- Heather MenzerAlbuquerque$61K
- Ernesto Otero LopezAlbuquerque$50K
- Rick GehlertAlbuquerque$46K
- Jeffrey BeckenbaughAlbuquerque$46K
- Matthew WhartonAlbuquerque$22K
- Jeffrey RaccaAlbuquerque$20K
- Michael ArchibeckAlbuquerque$19K
- Samer KakishAlbuquerque$15K
- Matthew BrownAlbuquerque$11K
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.