Has Rudy Kovachevich, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $40,301 in general payments to Rudy Kovachevich, MD across 143 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 Rudy Kovachevich, 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 Rudy Kovachevich, 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.

Rudy Kovachevich, MD

Hand Surgery · Englewood, CONPI 1801915350

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (35.7%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Skeletal Dynamics Inc accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $16,431 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $2,370 in 2025. Among hand 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.

$40,301in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 143 payments — averaging $281.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Skeletal Dynamics Inc$25K
Arthrex$4K
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$3K
Stryker$3K
Axogen$2K
Sonex Health, Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$14,40036%
Travel & lodging$7,18518%
Food & beverage$7,28918%
Education$11,42728%

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
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	22	$25,497
Arthrex	11	$4,288
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	13	$3,017
Stryker	31	$2,992
Axogen	6	$1,532
Sonex Health, Inc.	13	$1,109
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	16	$441
Smith+Nephew	7	$367
Zimmer Biomet	3	$295
Endo USA, Inc.	8	$153
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$125
Acell, Inc.	1	$124
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	1	$78
Medacta USA, Inc.	2	$66
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$47
Acumed LLC	1	$46
Johnson & Johnson	1	$40
Bioventus LLC	2	$35
Baxter Healthcare	1	$30
Exsomed Corporation	1	$17

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.

Geminus$25,331
Align$25,331
IJS$25,331
Implate$25,331
AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,469
AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,469
REUNION$1,109
Sx-One Microknife$787
VARIAX$470
ASNIS$278
Physio-Stim$250
XIAFLEX$243
Comprehensive Shoulder System$217
EVOS$172
Ascension$172
CONEXTIONS TR TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM-IMPLANT MECHANISM$168
AXSOS$139
TRAUMA$122

How this compares

$40,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 72 hand surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$159,098

Medicare patients

254

Services billed

1,725

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	110	$561
Oxycodone Hcl	85	$298
Methylprednisolone	12	$116

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Englewood

Carlton ClinkscalesEnglewood$131K
Kulvinder SacharEnglewood$30K
Jason RovakEnglewood$11K
Eric BrittonEnglewood$8K
Matthew DelarosaEnglewood$7K
Jennifer KummerEnglewood$2K
Sean GriggsEnglewood$2K
Philip HeymanEnglewood$739
Fraser LeversedgeAurora$326K
In YiLonetree$232K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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