Erik Bowman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boulder, CONPI 1902211931
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $17,615 of the $21,779 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Stryker accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,649, 2.7 times the $2,461 reported in 2019.
Across 438 payments — averaging $49.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- Zimmer Biomet$961
- Johnson & Johnson$381
- Medacta USA, Inc.$248
- Osteoremedies, LLC$190
- Next Science LLC$143
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0005%
- Travel & lodging$3,16415%
- Food & beverage$17,61581%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 359 | $18,525 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $961 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $381 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 6 | $248 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $190 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $143 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $128 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Orthalign Inc | 3 | $108 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $82 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $69 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Amgen | 3 | $58 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $28 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- MAKO$6,598
- TRIATHLON$1,755
- ACCOLADE$1,623
- RESTORATION$833
- TRIDENT$831
- T2$633
- TRITANIUM$518
- Avenir$502
- AXSOS$414
- GAMMA$414
- VARIAX$414
- HOFFMANN$414
- NA$147
- Xperience$143
- BlastX$143
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$135
- CERAMENT G$135
- GMRS$129
- Hip, Identity$121
- Irrisept$112
How this compares
$21,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 179 | $8,724 |
| Methocarbamol | 135 | $1,233 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 146 | $1,208 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 174 | $820 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 54 | $203 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 17 | $162 |
| Gabapentin | 14 | $143 |
| Amoxicillin | 98 | $99 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $69 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 20 | $22 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boulder
- Clint BlackwoodBoulder$768K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$1.8M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
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.