Michael McHugh, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Collins, CONPI 1770011835
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $105.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$698
- Johnson & Johnson$539
- Globus Medical$215
- plus $522 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,61354%
- Food & beverage$4,54443%
- Education$3003%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 23 | $3,717 |
| Stryker | 29 | $2,976 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $1,790 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $698 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $539 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $215 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Amgen | 3 | $141 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $67 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $40 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $27 |
| Think Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MAKO$2,358
- GMK Sphere Revision System$1,524
- Journey II$1,506
- AMISTEM$1,395
- GMK SPHERE$1,025
- Legion Revision$956
- OR3O Dual Mobility$956
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$956
- JOURNEY$956
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$160
- Harvest$160
- MPACT$144
- ACTIS$141
- KRYSTEXXA$128
How this compares
$10,457 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 136 | $1,079 |
| Pregabalin | 31 | $653 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 130 | $545 |
| Meloxicam | 160 | $377 |
| Cefadroxil | 22 | $243 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $175 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Collins
- 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
- John SchwappachEnglewood$1.5M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
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.