Douglas Crowther, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1780084715
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 310 payments — averaging $1013.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Precision Spine, Inc.$124K
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$99K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$47K
- Nexus Spine, LLC$11K
- Spineology Inc.$6K
- Innovasis Inc$6K
- plus $20K from 29 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $3003.75 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.
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$66K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$240,83377%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,1253%
- Travel & lodging$50,47416%
- Food & beverage$11,4234%
- Education$7960%
- Gifts$5680%
- Entertainment$9880%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 45 | $124,391 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 25 | $99,290 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 33 | $46,646 |
| Nexus Spine, LLC | 16 | $11,180 |
| Spineology Inc. | 8 | $6,148 |
| Innovasis Inc | 4 | $6,125 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 9 | $6,090 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 31 | $3,782 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 15 | $1,768 |
| Nevro Corp. | 40 | $1,655 |
| MIS Technologies, LLC | 5 | $1,385 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $956 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $871 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $860 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $782 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 4 | $514 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $322 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $186 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $181 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $159 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $129 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $86 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $73 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $57 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $34 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Incline Medical | 2 | $0 |
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.
- MD Vue Lateral Access System$49,456
- REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$33,498
- Reform Pedicle Screw System$24,149
- INTERVERTEBRAL BODY FUSION DEVICE$20,859
- SURELOK MIS 3L$20,859
- REFORM MC HA COATED PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$15,401
- KARMA$14,750
- Medical Devices$14,493
- SLIMPLICITY PLUS ACDF SYSTEM$13,000
- SHURFIT ACIF 2C$13,000
- Slimplicity Plus System$12,000
- PressOn$11,011
- DAKOTA ALIF SYSTEM$9,846
- Reform Ti System$9,000
- ShurFit ACIF 2C System$9,000
- ShurFit Posterior System$9,000
- Reform Poct$9,000
- Dakota ACDF System$9,000
- REFORM POCT SYSTEM$8,000
- Vault ALIF System$7,000
How this compares
$314,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 126 | $1,107 |
| Methocarbamol | 68 | $437 |
| Meloxicam | 78 | $229 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $99 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $89 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Colorado Springs
- Michael HuangColorado Springs$733K
- 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
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$3.2M
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.