Hugh McPherson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Lone Tree, CONPI 1447234281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (32.3%), travel and lodging and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 58.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $42,675 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $15,107 in 2025.
Across 182 payments — averaging $661.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$71K
- Innovasis Inc$39K
- Stryker$3K
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$24,10820%
- Consulting fees$17,25014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,84532%
- Travel & lodging$35,87230%
- Food & beverage$4,3614%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 80 | $70,961 |
| Innovasis Inc | 4 | $38,845 |
| Stryker | 29 | $3,029 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 10 | $3,000 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 15 | $1,599 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,580 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $434 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 7 | $286 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $198 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $179 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $169 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $46 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MYSPINE$38,776
- MECTALIF$15,836
- MUST$13,282
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$6,000
- GMK SPHERE$3,500
- EXPEDIUM$1,546
- VIPER$1,546
- NextAR Knee$924
- Xvision$910
- Other - Miscellaneous$757
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$588
- TRITANIUM$577
- ESCALATE$551
- ES2$551
- RAVINE$551
- YUKON$551
- ES2 SPINAL SYSTEM$458
- PRODISC L$179
- EXCELSIUS$165
- MESA$161
How this compares
$120,436 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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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 | 17 | $128 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Lone Tree
- Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
- Christopher GallusLone Tree$16K
- George FreyDenver$5.3M
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
- Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
- Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
- Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
- Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K
- Robert BenzFort Collins$581K
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.