Nathan Cafferky, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Frisco, CONPI 1982862439
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 486 payments — averaging $902.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$419K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$17K
- Encore Medical, LP$957
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$878
- Stryker$533
- Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$263
- plus $563 from 13 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $650.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Zimmer Biomet$650
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$270,31182%
- Travel & lodging$29,8739%
- Food & beverage$8,4183%
- Education$20,8606%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 427 | $418,777 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 24 | $16,827 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 8 | $957 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $878 |
| Stryker | 5 | $533 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $263 |
| BD | 1 | $129 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Vertex | 3 | $61 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $48 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $14 |
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.
- ROSA-Knee$99,623
- ROSA$89,479
- Persona$30,698
- EMPHASYS$15,559
- NexGen$14,500
- PD-Knee-New Product$13,237
- Avenir$11,000
- Arcos$11,000
- HAMMR CURVED G7 IMPACTOR$7,540
- Vanguard$6,500
- G7$3,137
- Rosa PKA$3,000
- Rosa-Hip$1,500
- DJO SURGICAL$872
- Knees Product Portfolio$500
- MAKO$440
- ATTUNE$418
- ARVIS$263
- PD-Hip-New Product$250
- TRIATHLON$173
How this compares
$438,797 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $199 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $85 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Frisco
- 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.