Joseph Lynott, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Collins, CONPI 1780249359
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 48.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,828 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $2,614 in 2025.
Across 303 payments — averaging $96.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$14K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$6K
- Legacy Ortho LLC$4K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$912
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$623
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$11,02138%
- Food & beverage$14,53650%
- Education$3,60012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 187 | $13,991 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 55 | $5,913 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 3 | $3,600 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 13 | $1,237 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $912 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $623 |
| International Life Sciences | 2 | $605 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $478 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $291 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 3 | $262 |
| Amgen | 2 | $247 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $233 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $195 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $47 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $43 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
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.
- TrueLok$4,142
- PROstep$2,150
- INBONE$1,271
- INFINITY$1,163
- HOFFMANN$816
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$659
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$616
- VARIAX$596
- Product Portfolio$538
- Viaflow$534
- Stravix$519
- EASYFUSE$470
- CITREFIX$436
- FIXOS$372
- ANKLE HINDFOOT NAILING SYSTEM$302
- GRAFIX PL$269
- PROSTEP MICA$247
- KRYSTEXXA$247
- ASNIS$221
- ORTHOLOC 3DI CROSSCHECK$174
How this compares
$29,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 181 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonium Lactate | 63 | $935 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $775 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 21 | $630 |
| Methylprednisolone | 65 | $408 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 36 | $391 |
| Ketoconazole | 19 | $289 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 11 | $276 |
| Meloxicam | 72 | $171 |
| Mupirocin | 30 | $163 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 21 | $159 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Collins
- Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
- Jeffrey LehrmanFort Collins$628K
- Charlene DennemeyerFort Collins$15K
- Stephen WilkinsonFort Collins$9K
- Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.8M
- Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
- Thomas ClantonVail$1.1M
- Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K
- Kevin NagamaniDenver$288K
- Keith JacobsonDenver$241K
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.