Jack Klem, MD
Neurological Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1871710004
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $73.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart USA Inc$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Medtronic$610
- Neo Spine USA, Inc.$393
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$389
- Si-bone, Inc.$354
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,20430%
- Food & beverage$5,03170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart USA Inc | 2 | $2,564 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 33 | $1,515 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $610 |
| Neo Spine USA, Inc. | 6 | $393 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 10 | $389 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $354 |
| Stryker | 3 | $326 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $258 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $115 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $114 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 4 | $97 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $88 |
| Clozex Medical Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Abbott | 1 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $34 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- UNiD$299
- Teligen$264
- Neo Pedicle Screw System$239
- BRAINLAB$237
- ViviGen$220
- CONDUIT$209
- UNID_PASS$175
- AVAFLEX$165
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$140
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$134
- iFuse Implant$128
- FIBERGRAFT$118
- ELCA$118
- EXPEDIUM$117
- SYMPHONY$117
- GIAPREZA$114
How this compares
$7,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 149 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $104 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Colorado Springs
- Ricky MedelColorado Springs$73K
- Michael BrownColorado Springs$50K
- Shervin RahimpourColorado Springs$39K
- Rahul SinghColorado Springs$26K
- Robert KimColorado Springs$12K
- Sharad RajpalBoulder$2.8M
- Chad PrusmackLone Tree$2.1M
- Ali MuradPueblo$1.5M
- Alan VillavicencioBoulder$1.3M
- David OrmondAurora$1.1M
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.