Steven Sides, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Greeley, CONPI 1679528541
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,280 of the $10,433 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 37.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,307 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $228 in 2025.
Across 128 payments — averaging $81.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Olympus America Inc.$546
- Paragon 28, Inc.$299
- Smith+Nephew$256
- plus $335 from 5 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $8396.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$17K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,28060%
- Food & beverage$3,28531%
- Gifts$8688%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 55 | $3,897 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 11 | $3,023 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 40 | $2,076 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $546 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 5 | $299 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $256 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $90 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- PROPHECY$575
- 4K CAMERA HEAD$540
- CARTIVA$419
- INBONE$355
- MAKO$175
- Additive Orthopedics$156
- Accelero-None$123
- Stravix$111
- GRAFIX PL$111
How this compares
$10,433 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $120 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $37 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Greeley
- Scott DhuparGreeley$60K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$1.8M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
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.