RxDoctor Payments Data

David Weinstein, MD

Sports Medicine · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1396793105

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (53.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. at 57.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $376,224, 3.3 times the $112,453 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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.

$1,469,081in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 545 payments — averaging $2695.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$843K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$513K
  • Smith+Nephew$51K
  • Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$18K
  • Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$14K
  • Zimmer Biomet$8K
  • plus $22K from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$789,46554%
  • Consulting fees$565,09038%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,5880%
  • Travel & lodging$96,0897%
  • Food & beverage$13,9561%
  • Education$1,8950%

General payments by program year

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25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.52$843,308
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.260$512,668
Smith+Nephew60$51,343
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.23$18,407
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.5$13,640
Zimmer Biomet13$7,818
Arthrex51$6,974
Stryker(2 entities)15$5,898
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC11$2,384
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)28$1,429
Materialise NV1$1,063
Exactech, Inc.6$1,053
Arthrosurface Incorporated6$969
Alliance Medical6$874
Medacta USA, Inc.6$740
Synthes GmbH1$500
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.1$14

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

$1,469,081 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 sports medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$407,184
Medicare patients
482
Services billed
2,418

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium19$1,009
Celecoxib15$247
Nabumetone12$78
Levofloxacin21$53
Meloxicam14$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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