Nolan Wessell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Aurora, CONPI 1437418498
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $16,000 of the $25,521 with a category attached, or 62.7%. Orthofix Medical, Inc. accounts for 74.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $28,402.
Across 88 payments — averaging $290.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$19K
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$6K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$450
- Medtronic$237
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$78
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$70
- plus $102 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,00063%
- Travel & lodging$7,19928%
- Food & beverage$2,3229%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 44 | $18,961 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 32 | $5,623 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $237 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $78 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $68 |
| Theradaptive, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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.
- Mariner MIS$5,968
- Reef TA$5,843
- MISCELLANEOUS$5,134
- Mariner MIS TLIF Retractor$4,750
- Meridian$2,319
- Mariner$1,545
- Mariner Outrigger$1,342
- NorthStar OCT$1,072
- SeaSpine Expandable Interbody$1,000
- Vu aPOD Prime NanoMetalene$927
- Cabo$927
- Strand$625
- NorthStar$520
- WaveForm TA$500
- Accell Evo3$498
- Laminoplasty$498
- OsteoStrand Plus$416
- Malibu$376
- Admiral ACP$270
- 7D Surgical System$244
How this compares
$25,521 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 24 | $430 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 32 | $279 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $136 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Aurora
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Christopher KleckAurora$469K
- David Ou-YangAurora$339K
- Mark EricksonAurora$257K
- Vikas PatelAurora$224K
- Evalina BurgerAurora$90K
- Evan FeneAurora$57K
- Kendra LastowkaAurora$51K
- Stephen PehlerAurora$42K
- Collin WalshAurora$9K
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.