Douglas Beard
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Fort Collins, CONPI 1669456497
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by ownership interests: $469,333 of the $583,125 with a category attached, or 80.5%. Highline Surgical Solutions, LLC accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 21 payments — averaging $27,768 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Highline Surgical Solutions, LLC$580K
- Spineart USA Inc$2K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$394
- Nexus Spine, LLC$200
- Centinel Spine, LLC$42
- Zimvie Inc.$28
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$111,13319%
- Travel & lodging$1,5540%
- Food & beverage$9050%
- Gifts$2000%
- Ownership interest$469,33380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highline Surgical Solutions, LLC | 5 | $580,466 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 8 | $1,994 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 5 | $394 |
| Nexus Spine, LLC | 1 | $200 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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.
- Medical Device$287
- PressOn$200
How this compares
$583,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Fort Collins
- Robert BenzFort Collins$581K
- William BiggsFort Collins$581K
- John RayFort Collins$6K
- George FreyDenver$5.3M
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
- Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
- Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
- Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
- Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.