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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $105,953 in general payments to John Shank, MD across 280 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 Shank, 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 Shank, 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 Shank, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1831141290

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (40.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Linvatec Corporation at 27.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $37,274 and has fallen 54.2% since, to $17,083 in 2025. Among foot and ankle surgery 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.

$105,953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 280 payments — averaging $378.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Linvatec Corporation$30K
Synthes GmbH$20K
Stryker$17K
In2bones USA, LLC$15K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
Arthrex$6K
plus $8K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$42,91541%
Consulting fees$11,11910%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,1759%
Travel & lodging$27,00125%
Food & beverage$11,16111%
Education$4,5824%

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
Linvatec Corporation	12	$29,539
Synthes GmbH	22	$20,400
Stryker(2 entities)	134	$17,248
In2bones USA, LLC	14	$15,051
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$10,269
Arthrex	34	$5,511
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	26	$3,225
Synthes USA Products LLC	7	$1,276
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$1,170
Gemini Medical LLC	1	$782
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	9	$706
Alliance Medical	3	$193
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$180
Exactech, Inc.	1	$150
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$114
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$64
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$48
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$27

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.

How this compares

$105,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 181 foot and ankle surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$151,557

Medicare patients

329

Services billed

1,289

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 foot and ankle surgery in Colorado Springs

Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
William MontrossColorado Springs$238K
Matthew HinderlandColorado Springs$47K
Jordan CameronColorado Springs$17K
Michael SimpsonColorado Springs$13K
Belinda LiauColorado Springs$7K
Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.8M
Thomas ClantonVail$1.1M
Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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