Ronald Hugate, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Golden, CONPI 1275514960
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,750 of the $4,568 with a category attached, or 60.2%. Onkos Surgical, Inc. accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,213 and has fallen 89.8% since, to $327 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $5,294.
Across 31 payments — averaging $147.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Conformis, Inc.$227
- Zimmer Biomet$160
- Encore Medical, LP$114
- Exactech, Inc.$95
- plus $97 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,75060%
- Food & beverage$1,81840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $2,844 |
| Stryker | 17 | $1,031 |
| Conformis, Inc. | 2 | $227 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $160 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $114 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| BD | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- TRIATHLON$344
- SALVATION$175
- TRITANIUM$174
- GAMMA$150
- LCCK NexGen$133
- iTotal PS$125
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$114
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$114
- Identity Imprint CR$102
- Identity Imprint PS$102
How this compares
$4,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $137 |
| Meloxicam | 14 | $70 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $66 |
| Amoxicillin | 41 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Golden
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
- Michael EllmanGolden$243K
- Aaron CaspGolden$67K
- Jared ForanGolden$65K
- Jesse ChrastilGolden$50K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
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.