Lonnie Loutzenhiser, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Golden, CONPI 1063543007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $145,428 of the $201,477 with a category attached, or 72.2%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 67.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $67,939, 4.1 times the $16,529 reported in 2019.
Across 171 payments — averaging $1178.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$136K
- Stryker$25K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$20K
- Globus Medical$17K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$484
- plus $540 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$145,42872%
- Consulting fees$45,92523%
- Travel & lodging$5,7033%
- Food & beverage$4,4212%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 55 | $136,420 |
| Stryker | 39 | $24,565 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 35 | $20,018 |
| Globus Medical | 20 | $16,535 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $2,916 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $484 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $220 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 2 | $136 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $35 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $25 |
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.
- Physio-Stim$67,322
- WaveForm C$46,388
- EVEREST XT$16,000
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$16,000
- ALEUTIAN TLIF MI$15,000
- WaveForm TA$11,776
- CAPITOL$11,257
- WaveForm TO$9,138
- EVEREST MI$8,500
- EXPANDABLE CAGE$7,500
- SAHARA$7,500
- WaveForm L$5,994
- CAPITOL / RETRACTOR$5,278
- CASCADIA$3,500
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$2,749
- Regatta Lateral System$2,125
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,011
- Mariner$813
- Shoreline$808
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$788
How this compares
$201,477 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $370 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Golden
- William StollGolden$11K
- Amit AgarwalaGolden$3K
- George FreyDenver$5.3M
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
- Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
- Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
- Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
- Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
- Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K
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.