Michael Carlson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Provo, UTNPI 1407076193
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 31 payments — averaging $266.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Arthrex$2K
- Active Medical, LLC$786
- Vericel Corporation$24
- Boston Scientific$24
- Johnson & Johnson$20
- plus $81 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,05049%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00024%
- Food & beverage$1,58219%
- Education$6177%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 19 | $5,315 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $2,000 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 3 | $786 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- TRIATHLON$2,025
- MAKO$1,125
- NA$1,050
- OMEGA$600
- ICONIX$499
- HIPMAP$267
- COBRA$163
- CINCHLOCK SS$143
- NANOTACK FLEX$131
How this compares
$8,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron Hcl | 16 | $81 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Provo
- Kirt KimballProvo$104K
- Jonathan FauxProvo$73K
- Matthew GreenProvo$20K
- Jeffrey WallentineProvo$19K
- David JoosProvo$16K
- Hugh WestMurray$14.2M
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Armen KhachatryanWest Jordan$3.9M
- Thomas CaltonWashington Terrace$3.5M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$3.3M
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.