Robert Burks, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1124118716
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — other (59.2%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 59.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $225,243 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $10,226 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT 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 100 payments — averaging $3553.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$211K
- Arthrex$73K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$63K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$4K
- Active Medical, LLC$3K
- Goode Surgical Inc$1K
- plus $311 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$67,11919%
- Consulting fees$64,43118%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0001%
- Travel & lodging$3,4871%
- Food & beverage$1,3250%
- Education$4,4641%
- Other$210,51859%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $210,535 |
| Arthrex | 48 | $73,101 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 33 | $62,767 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 4 | $4,167 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 5 | $3,397 |
| Goode Surgical Inc | 1 | $1,067 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $213 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $98 |
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.
- ARTHREX$48,044
- KNEE & HIP INSTRUMENTS ACL/PCL DISPOSABLES GUIDE PINS$19,076
- HEALIX$12,600
- INTRAFIX$12,600
- ORTHOCORD$12,600
- CAPITAL EQUIPMENT CART$12,600
- VISUALIZATION$2,304
- TRUESPAN$843
- GRYPHON$759
- MOTOBAND$293
- Regeneten$213
- FLOW Wands (F50 / F90)$112
How this compares
$355,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Salt Lake City
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Robert TashjianSalt Lake City$2.6M
- Jeffrey JacksonSalt Lake City$2.3M
- Thomas HigginsSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher MartinSalt Lake City$1.2M
- Christopher PeltSalt Lake City$432K
- Charles SaltzmanSalt Lake City$254K
- Stephen AokiSalt Lake City$239K
- Brandon LawrenceSalt Lake City$144K
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.