Has Todd Vanderheiden, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,182 in general payments to Todd Vanderheiden, MD across 25 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Todd Vanderheiden, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Todd Vanderheiden, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Todd Vanderheiden, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Denver, CONPI 1528114105

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,182in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $87.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Stryker$508
Johnson & Johnson$74
Zimmer Biomet$48
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$25

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,182100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	14	$1,527
Stryker	7	$508
Johnson & Johnson	2	$74
Zimmer Biomet	1	$48
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	1	$25

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.

How this compares

$2,182 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 69 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$270,632

Medicare patients

242

Services billed

992

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
Gabapentin	50	$415
Pregabalin	15	$178
Methylprednisolone	22	$151
Methocarbamol	15	$107
Hydromorphone Hcl	13	$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Denver

George FreyDenver$5.3M
Timothy KukloDenver$1.3M
Samuel SmithDenver$3K
Edward DonnerJohnstown$9.8M
Christopher CainAurora$3.4M
Jim YoussefDurango$2.3M
Scott StanleyParker$1.7M
Roger SungColorado Springs$1.7M
Vikas PatelAurora$1.3M
Michael GallizziLone Tree$1.2M

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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.

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