Vikas Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Aurora, CONPI 1861589913
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $164,191 of the $223,936 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 31.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $58,417 and has fallen 70.0% since, to $17,514 in 2025.
Across 278 payments — averaging $805.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$70K
- Cerapedics Inc.$45K
- MML US, Inc.$32K
- Si-bone, Inc.$24K
- Zimmer Biomet$13K
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$12K
- plus $29K from 16 others
Across 181 payments — averaging $6077.84 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$541K
- MML US, Inc.$242K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$187K
- Si-bone, Inc.$98K
- Premia Spine, Ltd.$32K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,8363%
- Consulting fees$164,19173%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,74213%
- Travel & lodging$17,7078%
- Food & beverage$7,1483%
- Education$2690%
- Gifts$420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 46 | $69,595 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 49 | $45,120 |
| MML US, Inc. | 36 | $31,662 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 26 | $24,386 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 17 | $12,578 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 23 | $11,581 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 20 | $11,343 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $5,261 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $2,562 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $2,227 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $2,102 |
| Premia Spine, Ltd. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $1,012 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $877 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $847 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $595 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $336 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $152 |
| BD | 1 | $129 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- CONDUIT$66,438
- SYMPHONY$66,071
- SYNAPSE$66,071
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$47,870
- MOUNTAINEER$40,147
- ReActiv8$31,253
- ViviGen$23,763
- iFuse Implant$15,184
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$8,800
- Excelsius - GPS$6,770
- ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$5,393
- PRODISC L$5,164
- Vital MIS$4,200
- GELFOAM$2,520
- FLOSEAL$2,207
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$2,160
- TABLESS S4$1,844
- S4 ELEMENT SPINAL SYSTEM$1,744
- S4 SPINAL SYSTEM$1,558
- i-FACTOR Putty$1,500
How this compares
$223,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Aurora
- Christopher CainAurora$3.3M
- Christopher KleckAurora$469K
- David Ou-YangAurora$339K
- Mark EricksonAurora$257K
- Evalina BurgerAurora$90K
- Evan FeneAurora$57K
- Kendra LastowkaAurora$51K
- Stephen PehlerAurora$42K
- Nolan WessellAurora$26K
- Collin WalshAurora$9K
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.