Kris Alden, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Basalt, CONPI 1992842132
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $1,073,678 of the $1,291,608 with a category attached, or 83.1%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,072,390 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $53,241 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 256 payments — averaging $5045.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1.1M
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$58K
- Encore Medical, LP$53K
- UOC USA Inc$44K
- Medwest Associates$36K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$12K
- plus $14K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,6480%
- Consulting fees$165,88113%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,0711%
- Travel & lodging$25,2382%
- Food & beverage$7,0921%
- Other$1,073,67883%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,074,221 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 32 | $57,810 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 74 | $53,094 |
| UOC USA Inc | 55 | $44,141 |
| Medwest Associates | 2 | $36,142 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 18 | $11,722 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $7,578 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 8 | $4,174 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 14 | $644 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $631 |
| Orthalign Inc | 4 | $352 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $278 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $250 |
| Motive Health, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $54 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $49 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $43 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $12 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- ACTIS$56,640
- DJO SURGICAL$37,176
- Resolve$33,796
- ORTHOPEDICS$7,578
- GMK SPHERE$7,517
- U2, Conformity, U-Motion II and USTAR II$2,140
- MPACT$1,648
- GMK Sphere Revision System$1,400
- RECLAIM$1,124
- PINNACLE$1,004
- Pinnacle Gription TF$1,004
- U-Star II$625
- Tsolution One Surgical System$551
- U2, Conformity, U-Motion II, PSA, U-Star II$508
- Conformity, U-Star II$279
- CONFORMITY$268
- U2, Conformity$237
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$191
- HIP ENDURANCE$167
- CAPTIVATE$165
How this compares
$1,291,608 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $686 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 42 | $548 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 41 | $447 |
| Mupirocin | 53 | $318 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $140 |
| Amoxicillin | 27 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Basalt
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$1.8M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
- Clint BlackwoodBoulder$768K
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.