Theodore Schlegel
Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenwood Village, CONPI 1689670028
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,939,536 of the $5,030,010 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Medtronic accounts for 91.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,950,771 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $10,351 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 38 payments — averaging $132,369 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4.6M
- Kaleo, Inc.$385K
- Smith+Nephew$50K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$479
- Stryker$364
- Motive Health, Inc.$103
- plus $142 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,939,53678%
- Speaking & faculty fees$46,0761%
- Travel & lodging$2340%
- Food & beverage$8540%
- Ownership interest$2,0930%
- Other$1,041,21721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $4,593,949 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 2 | $385,198 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $49,775 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $479 |
| Stryker | 3 | $364 |
| Motive Health, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Ellipsys$4,418,998
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$174,951
- Rotation Medical Arthroscopic Instrument Kit$49,651
- HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$149
- CHAMPION SHOULDER INSTRUMENTATION SET$120
How this compares
$5,030,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Greenwood Village
- Robert BessGreenwood Village$1.8M
- Woosik ChungGreenwood Village$253K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
- David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
- Bharat DesaiGolden$1.4M
- Kris AldenBasalt$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.