Michael Cain, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Thornton, CONPI 1366706129
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 106 payments — averaging $93.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$989
- Zimmer Biomet$918
- Arthrex$911
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,68727%
- Food & beverage$5,43255%
- Education$1,83518%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 4 | $2,054 |
| Smith+Nephew | 21 | $1,501 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,356 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $989 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $918 |
| Arthrex | 9 | $911 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 8 | $512 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 2 | $496 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 3 | $299 |
| Abbott | 2 | $262 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $169 |
| Vilex LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $57 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $38 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $26 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Fast-Fix 360$792
- Meniscal Root Repair System$792
- Acufex$792
- ROSA$723
- EQUINOXE$496
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$482
- InSet System$278
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$253
- DYNACORD$244
- Gryphon Orthocord$233
- GMK SPHERE$229
- VAPR$222
- POLARSTEM$201
- R3$201
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$201
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$166
- REUNION$155
- TRIGEN InterTAN$149
- Persona$147
- TFN ADVANCED$135
How this compares
$9,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 34 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Thornton
- Jacob RumleyThornton$179K
- Oscar NoelThornton$45K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$17.5M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$3.2M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
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.