Has Riley Hale, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,733 in general payments to Riley Hale, MD across 23 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Riley Hale, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Riley Hale, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Riley Hale, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Collins, CONPI 1609947423

Payments from drug & device makers

$26,733in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $1162.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$26K
Johnson & Johnson$321
Stryker$82
Smith+Nephew$72
Vertex$19

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$22,95086%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,22012%
Food & beverage$5642%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	13	$26,240
Johnson & Johnson	5	$321
Stryker	2	$82
Smith+Nephew	2	$72
Vertex	1	$19

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.

PINNACLE$26,170
CORAIL$19,800
PINNACLE ALTRX$3,220
ATTUNE$3,150
ACTIS$141

How this compares

$26,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$571,294

Medicare patients

734

Services billed

5,241

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
EliquisApixaban	27	$9,830
Oxycodone Hcl	572	$4,828
Cefadroxil	409	$2,655
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	67	$1,009
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	85	$924
Tramadol Hcl	202	$826
Amoxicillin	282	$382
Meloxicam	101	$344
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	49	$246
Celecoxib	11	$128
Gabapentin	16	$96
Clindamycin Hcl	50	$77

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

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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.

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