Justin Newman, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Vail, CONPI 1932341450
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (43.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 72.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $12,822 and has fallen 65.1% since, to $4,476 in 2025.
Across 81 payments — averaging $444.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$26K
- Vericel Corporation$5K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$4K
- Stryker$420
- Covidien LP$111
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$78
- plus $257 from 6 others
Across 34 payments — averaging $694.12 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.
- Vericel Corporation$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,39732%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,65344%
- Travel & lodging$5,87516%
- Food & beverage$3,0498%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 48 | $26,039 |
| Vericel Corporation | 15 | $5,195 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 4 | $3,873 |
| Stryker | 5 | $420 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $111 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $65 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $52 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 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.
- SPATIAL FRAME$8,757
- Healicoil$6,753
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$6,550
- MACI$5,000
- BIOCLEANSE BTB$3,300
- Acufex$2,550
- Q-FIX$2,238
- NOVOSTITCH$1,381
- ACUFEX GRAFTMASTER III$1,138
- ACUFEX Knee$1,104
- BIOSURE REGENESORB$1,104
- Acufex Director$802
- Dermineralized Bone Fibers (DBF)$500
- Firstpass$252
- VARIAX$133
- PANGEA$127
- Mini-Open Latarjet$125
- ULTRABUTTON$115
- FAST-FIX FLEX$108
How this compares
$35,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 383 orthopaedic 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Vail
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Andrew GeeslinVail$211K
- Marc PhilipponVail$196K
- Craig HaytmanekVail$182K
- Jonathan GodinVail$102K
- Matthew VopatVail$50K
- John ApostolakosVail$48K
- Joseph RuzbarskyVail$45K
- Richard AmendolaVail$39K
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
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.