Eric McCarty, MD
Sports Medicine · Aurora, CONPI 1407943558
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $137,931 of the $209,310 with a category attached, or 65.9%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 83.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $50,130 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $5,057 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 134 payments — averaging $1562.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$175K
- Bioventus LLC$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$7K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
- Vericel Corporation$2K
- plus $5K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$137,93166%
- Consulting fees$59,35228%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
- Travel & lodging$2,1831%
- Food & beverage$4,3672%
- Education$4,9792%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 73 | $175,265 |
| Bioventus LLC | 9 | $8,461 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $6,785 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $6,590 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $4,906 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $2,000 |
| Stryker | 15 | $1,431 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 6 | $1,222 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $890 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 7 | $608 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 2 | $330 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $330 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $218 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $117 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $40 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Ventix$73,804
- Ventix Anchor$64,126
- Zilretta$4,900
- Rotator Cuff Buttress$4,000
- Juggerknotless Soft Anchor$3,938
- Juggerknot-Sports Medicine$2,375
- Tricera Handpiece$2,063
- MACI$2,000
- Quattro$1,125
- MONOVISC$864
- ORTHOVISC$864
- PEAK$864
- Juggerknot$750
- Persona$750
- Trabecular Metal Shapes$750
- AccuFill$750
- Biowick$750
- Miami J$341
- Other$325
- ICONIX$266
How this compares
$209,310 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 196 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in Aurora
- Rachel FrankAurora$1.6M
- Jonathan BravmanAurora$247K
- Jeffrey HassebrockAurora$69K
- Jamie FriedmanAurora$40K
- Nicholas TsourisAurora$40K
- Jason DragooAurora$39K
- Philip SerbinAurora$37K
- Patrick GarvinAurora$36K
- Andrew KuhnAurora$30K
- Luke VillamariaAurora$25K
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.