Has John Eakin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $38,469 in general payments to John Eakin, MD across 131 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Eakin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Eakin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Eakin, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1316239775

Payments from drug & device makers

$38,469in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $293.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$22K
Smith+Nephew$6K
Pylant Medical$6K
Stryker$3K
Alliance Medical$310
Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc$183
plus $494 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$20,00052%
Travel & lodging$7,78220%
Food & beverage$5,05813%
Education$5,63015%

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
Arthrex	34	$22,289
Smith+Nephew	35	$6,457
Pylant Medical	7	$5,669
Stryker	39	$3,067
Alliance Medical	5	$310
Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc	2	$183
Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$179
Evolution Surgical, Inc	2	$89
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$74
Vericel Corporation	1	$72
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	2	$49
Medtronic	1	$31

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.

EVOS$2,355
SPATIAL FRAME$1,424
NOVOSTITCH$1,424
Biosure$1,424
MAKO$1,421
TRIGEN$1,351
REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,233
ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$442
GAMMA$243
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$227
INSIGNIA$170
Q-FIX$150
TRIGEN InterTAN$142

How this compares

$38,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$13,982

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 orthopaedic surgery in Colorado Springs

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William CicconeColorado Springs$111K
Gary SimpsonColorado Springs$71K
Joel MattaVail$21M
Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
Charlie YangDenver$3.7M

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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.

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