Has Jonathon Backus, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $79,123 in general payments to Jonathon Backus, MD across 143 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 Jonathon Backus, 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 Jonathon Backus, 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.

Jonathon Backus, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Vail, CONPI 1548587900

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medline Industries LP accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.

$79,123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 143 payments — averaging $553.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medline Industries LP$60K
Medartis Inc.$10K
Arthrex$4K
Stryker$2K
Elite Orthopedics, LLC$2K
Smith+Nephew$248
plus $1K from 10 others

$20,256in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $20,256 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medline Industries LP$20K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$11,53315%
Consulting fees$31,65140%
Speaking & faculty fees$15,26119%
Travel & lodging$11,70115%
Food & beverage$5,7747%
Education$3,1714%
Gifts$310%

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
Medline Industries LP	77	$60,297
Medartis Inc.	3	$9,774
Arthrex	17	$3,951
Stryker(2 entities)	19	$1,958
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	8	$1,804
Smith+Nephew	3	$248
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	2	$146
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$140
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$139
DJO, LLC	1	$138
Bioventus LLC	5	$131
Axogen	1	$125
Johnson & Johnson	2	$122
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$86
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$39
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$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.

MEDLINE UNITE$114,062
MEDLINE$46,866
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.$33,248
PENDING$23,433
APTUS$9,774
Dermatology and Wound Care$6,936
MJFS4536$4,732
PRIME SERIES$623
INFINITY$249
INFINITY ADAPTIS$171
FIXOS$159
SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$140
CADENCE ANKLE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM$140
HALLU-LOCK$140
PANTA NAIL$140
TOTAL FOOT SYSTEM$140
Restrata Wound Matrix$139
PROCARE$138
AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$125
AxoGuard Nerve Connector$125

How this compares

$79,123 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

$83,981

Medicare patients

179

Services billed

874

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 Vail

Thomas ClantonVail$1.1M
Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.8M
Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K
Jeffrey LehrmanFort Collins$628K
Kevin NagamaniDenver$288K
Keith JacobsonDenver$241K
William MontrossColorado Springs$238K
Dustin KruseWheat Ridge$217K

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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