Has Michael Bauer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,549,689 in general payments to Michael Bauer across 1,226 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 Michael Bauer 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 Michael Bauer 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.

Michael Bauer

Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine · Castle Rock, CONPI 1346417086

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,549,689in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,226 payments — averaging $3711.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$683K
Smith+Nephew$608K
Elutia, Inc.$470K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$451K
AbbVie$378K
Human Regenerative Technologies$297K
plus $1.7M from 32 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$31,7501%
Consulting fees$3,925,06689%
Speaking & faculty fees$414,0769%
Travel & lodging$35,0971%
Food & beverage$2010%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	112	$683,268
Smith+Nephew	77	$607,708
Elutia, Inc.	58	$469,650
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	67	$450,500
AbbVie(2 entities)	238	$377,948
Human Regenerative Technologies	6	$296,500
Mimedx Group, Inc.	16	$270,320
Cook Biotech Incorporated	44	$228,500
Stryker(2 entities)	114	$188,996
Sequence Lifescience, Inc	41	$164,500
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	21	$110,764
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	30	$91,500
Globus Medical	52	$81,967
Infinity Biologix LLC	4	$81,464
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.	38	$59,500
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	7	$57,200
Stability Biologics, LLC	13	$44,000
Osteomed LLC	41	$40,051
Osiris Therapeutics Inc.	4	$26,000
Implant Direct Sybron International LLC	34	$25,609
Aesculap Biologics, LLC	17	$25,500
Linvatec Corporation	22	$25,320
Envista Holdings Corporation	50	$23,273
Acumed LLC	23	$19,500
Osteogenics Biomedical Inc.	28	$17,850
Henry Schein, Inc.	20	$16,026
Amendia, Inc.	7	$12,250
New Horizon Medical Solutions	11	$12,100
Medline Industries LP	9	$11,998
Biowound Solutions, Inc.	4	$8,343
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	5	$7,500
Bimini Technologies LLC	1	$6,386
Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.	1	$4,500
Interventional Pain Technologies Inc.	6	$3,000
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$84
Abbott	1	$44
Atricure, Inc.	2	$42
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$32

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.

Grafix$495,000
BIODFACTOR$351,500
ECM Patch,Pouch$210,500
ViBone$157,250
GRAFTONAND GRAFTON PLUSDEMINERALIZED BONE MATRIX (DBM)$95,348
GRAFIX PL$94,500
BIODRESTORE$86,000
BIODOPTIX$71,500
GrafixPL$70,208
Allografts$67,500
ALLOGRAFT$63,079
OsteoBallast$49,500
INFINITY$47,500
OsteoStrand$34,500
Strand Plus$34,500
AUGMENT INJECTABLE$33,500
Stravix$26,000
CYTAL$26,000
PRIMATRIX$26,000
NOVOCART 3D$25,500

How this compares

Too few blood banking & transfusion medicine providers in Coloradoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$8,053

Medicare patients

Services billed

130

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 blood banking & transfusion medicine in Castle Rock

Roberto GiananiLoveland$208K

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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