Michael Messina
Orthopaedic Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1174848394
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 169 payments — averaging $118.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$8K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$4K
- Stryker$2K
- Catalyst Orthoscience$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$847
- Paladin Technology Solutions$622
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,8019%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0005%
- Travel & lodging$5,87029%
- Food & beverage$5,24826%
- Education$6,14731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 30 | $8,116 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 11 | $4,288 |
| Stryker | 19 | $2,448 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 8 | $1,583 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $847 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 7 | $622 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $484 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $328 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 13 | $201 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 2 | $161 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $110 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $108 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $68 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $58 |
| Vertex | 3 | $58 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $30 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Amgen | 2 | $25 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,675
- CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$875
- R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$875
- Archer 3D Software$875
- Catalyst Total CSR$551
- Persona$307
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$223
- ASNIS$200
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$142
- ARTHROPLASTY IMPLANTS PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY UNI KNEE$137
- Sidus Stem-Free Shoulder$125
- ROSA$111
- Legion Revision$106
How this compares
$20,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 16 | $258 |
| Meloxicam | 81 | $205 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $169 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 13 | $147 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $97 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 30 | $51 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Aurora
- Adam SeidlAurora$412K
- Michael HewittAurora$52K
- 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.