Erik Thelander
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1255336400
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 57 payments — averaging $110.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$1K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$1K
- Nevro Corp.$71
- Flower Orthopedics Coporation$63
- Ossio Inc$62
- plus $212 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,76128%
- Food & beverage$2,13934%
- Education$1,70427%
- Gifts$70511%
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(2 entities) | 30 | $3,397 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 10 | $1,303 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $71 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 2 | $63 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $62 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $61 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- PROstep$1,114
- INFINITY$833
- Lapiplasty System$734
- AXS INFINITY LS$504
- TMC SPEEDMTP$149
- PROPHECY$134
How this compares
$6,309 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 181 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $135 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $75 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Aurora
- Kenneth HuntAurora$92K
- Dallas HagmanAurora$31K
- Scott ColeAurora$25K
- Stuart MyersAurora$19K
- Stefan GarciaAurora$17K
- Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
- Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.9M
- Thomas ClantonVail$1.6M
- Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
- Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K
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.