Steven Thorpe, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1811163215
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,100 of the $4,709 with a category attached, or 65.8%. Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,452, 4.4 times the $781 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $5,294.
Across 18 payments — averaging $261.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$146
- Zimmer Biomet$146
- Onkos Surgical, Inc.$101
- Medtronic$96
- plus $58 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,10066%
- Travel & lodging$68114%
- Food & beverage$78017%
- Gifts$1483%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $3,148 |
| Stryker | 6 | $1,014 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $146 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $96 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ROMVIMZA$3,000
- NONE$781
- AXSOS$149
- CellerateRx$146
- Persona$146
- ELEOS LIMB SALVAGE SYSTEM$101
How this compares
$4,709 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Aurora
- Adam SeidlAurora$363K
- 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.