Paul Stone
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Castle Rock, CONPI 1942228457
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $65,966 of the $77,145 with a category attached, or 85.5%. Flower Orthopedics Coporation accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $23,326 and has fallen 82.0% since, to $4,188 in 2025. Among foot & ankle surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 98 payments — averaging $787.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Flower Orthopedics Coporation$48K
- Acumed LLC$13K
- Osteomed LLC$9K
- Metric Medical Devices, Inc.$5K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$437
- Zimmer Biomet$369
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$65,96686%
- Consulting fees$3,1144%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,3504%
- Travel & lodging$2,3053%
- Food & beverage$2,3783%
- Education$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 26 | $47,698 |
| Acumed LLC | 10 | $12,959 |
| Osteomed LLC | 10 | $9,350 |
| Metric Medical Devices, Inc. | 7 | $5,065 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $437 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $369 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $328 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 14 | $256 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $122 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $70 |
| Celularity Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $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.
- Lapidus Plate, Alpha$22,156
- Lapidus Plate, Beta$22,156
- MTP Plate, 5 Holes, Left$22,156
- MTP Plate, 5 Holes, Right$22,156
- 1.7mm TMT Plate, 5 Holes, (L), 2.7mm/3.0mm$18,755
- OsteoMed$12,959
- EXT-Subtalar$6,342
- SuperScaffold$3,659
- EXT-InterPhlex$3,007
- Anatomic Distal Fibular Plate, 4 Holes, Left$1,821
- 1.75mm TMT Plate, 5 Holes, (R), 2.7mm/3.0mm$1,580
- InnovaMatrix AC$1,457
- Affixus$149
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$122
- Precision MIS Bunion$120
How this compares
$77,145 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 181 foot & ankle surgery providers in Colorado.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Castle Rock
- Ronnie PollardCastle Rock$9K
- Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
- Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.8M
- Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
- Thomas ClantonVail$1.1M
- Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K
- Jeffrey LehrmanFort Collins$628K
- Kevin NagamaniDenver$288K
- Keith JacobsonDenver$241K
- William MontrossColorado Springs$238K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.