Stewart Kite
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Pueblo, CONPI 1528687621
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kairos Surgical Inc at 29.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,651 and has fallen 73.8% since, to $956 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $106.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kairos Surgical Inc$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Arthrex$482
- Acumed LLC$469
- Linvatec Corporation$429
- Kerecis Limited$411
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,61032%
- Food & beverage$3,19939%
- Education$2,40029%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 4 | $2,423 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $2,149 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| Acumed LLC | 9 | $469 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 3 | $429 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $411 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 3 | $332 |
| Next Science LLC | 4 | $271 |
| Stryker | 3 | $217 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $172 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $135 |
| Alliance Medical | 2 | $135 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $130 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $51 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 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.
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$1,115
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,064
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$700
- InCore Lapidus$633
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$293
- COLINK 2$289
- Topical oxygen chamber for extremities$269
- Xperience$250
- BlastX$250
- SurgX$250
- ACUMED$143
- Amniotic Membranes$143
- OsteoMed$143
- COLINK VALLUX$118
- RTS FLEXIBLE 1ST MPJ IMPLANT W/GROMMETS$118
- NEOSPAN SUPERELASTIC COMPRESSION STAPLE W/INSTRUMENTS, SIZE 10X10X10$118
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$113
How this compares
$8,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 181 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $156 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Pueblo
- Mark MaurerPueblo$12K
- Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
- Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.8M
- Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
- Thomas ClantonVail$1.1M
- Brett SachsWheat Ridge$806K
- Jeffrey LehrmanFort Collins$628K
- Kevin NagamaniDenver$288K
- Keith JacobsonDenver$241K
- William MontrossColorado Springs$238K
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.