Ferdinand Liotta, MD
Sports Medicine · Basalt, CONPI 1528022134
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (43.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 81.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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 192 payments — averaging $445.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$70K
- Arthrex$7K
- Exactech, Inc.$5K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$2K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$1K
- Ossio Inc$167
- plus $396 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,45025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$36,84443%
- Travel & lodging$16,38519%
- Food & beverage$7,6629%
- Education$3,2674%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 101 | $70,069 |
| Arthrex | 42 | $6,811 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 16 | $5,149 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 10 | $1,945 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 6 | $1,072 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $167 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Stryker | 1 | $71 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MICRORAPTOR$18,225
- Healicoil$17,922
- Q-FIX$15,525
- Regeneten$8,288
- Coblation Wands$7,650
- REGENETEN Shoulder$5,549
- EQUINOXE$4,885
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$2,985
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$2,700
- FLOW 50/90$2,700
- Firstpass$2,700
- Fast-Fix 360$2,700
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$2,700
- Coblation$2,700
- SPATIAL FRAME$2,690
- Accu-pass$1,800
- The Pink Hip Kit - Smith & Nephew Table$1,350
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$1,205
- ESSENTIAL NEO$949
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$128
How this compares
$85,608 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 Basalt
- Peter MillettVail$21.6M
- Matthew ProvencherVail$3.4M
- Rachel FrankAurora$1.6M
- David WeinsteinColorado Springs$1.5M
- Alan NgDenver$1.4M
- James GenuarioParker$720K
- David SchneiderGolden$709K
- Christopher JonesColorado Springs$632K
- Randall ViolaVail$551K
- Edward StollWheat Ridge$265K
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.