Timothy Kuklo, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Denver, CONPI 1487672440
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $907,452 of the $1,333,763 with a category attached, or 68.0%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.
Across 328 payments — averaging $4066.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1.3M
- Abyrx, Inc$234
- Cerapedics Inc.$189
- Medtronic$165
- Johnson & Johnson$105
- Zimmer Biomet$105
- plus $44 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$907,45268%
- Consulting fees$338,48325%
- Travel & lodging$78,0726%
- Food & beverage$9,6911%
- Education$650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 314 | $1,332,921 |
| Abyrx, Inc | 1 | $234 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 7 | $189 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $165 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $105 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $105 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $44 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$713,976
- BIOLOGICS$87,368
- INVICTUS OPEN$52,921
- BATTALION LLIF$45,341
- OsseoScrew$42,287
- BATALLION LATERAL$34,096
- SafeOp$20,250
- KODIAK$14,671
- Invictus MIS$12,072
- Battalion TLIF - PC$10,925
- DO NOT USE - Posterior Cervical$8,563
- DO NOT USE - Cervical$6,250
- IdentiTi$5,866
- Solus ALIF$5,672
- Battalion PLIF - PS$4,980
- PLX$4,250
- Cervical$969
- LIF$494
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$373
- UNID_PASS$165
How this compares
$1,333,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.
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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 Hcl | 79 | $1,658 |
| Fentanyl | 15 | $1,227 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 48 | $990 |
| Gabapentin | 25 | $357 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $304 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $156 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $150 |
| Methylprednisolone | 21 | $139 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $116 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $50 |
| Diazepam | 18 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Denver
- George FreyDenver$5.3M
- Samuel SmithDenver$3K
- Todd VanderheidenDenver$2K
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Edward DonnerJohnstown$2.5M
- Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
- Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
- Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M
- Douglas BeardFort Collins$583K
- Robert BenzFort Collins$581K
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.