Has William Ciccone, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $72,542 in general payments to William Ciccone, MD across 137 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 William Ciccone, 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 William Ciccone, 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.

William Ciccone, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Westminster, CONPI 1568414662

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $58,829 of the $72,542 with a category attached, or 81.1%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 91.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,821 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $2,602 in 2025.

$72,542in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $529.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$66K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1K
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$1K
Medacta USA, Inc.$312
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$235
plus $947 from 9 others

$69,367in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $11,561 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$69K

$167,455in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $167,455 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Zurimed Technologies Inc.$167K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$58,82981%
Travel & lodging$8,48412%
Food & beverage$5,2297%

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.	89	$66,336
Johnson & Johnson	24	$2,445
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	4	$1,267
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$1,000
Medacta USA, Inc.	3	$312
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	2	$235
RTI Surgical, Inc	2	$229
Zurimed Technologies Inc.	1	$178
Smith+Nephew	2	$147
Stryker(2 entities)	2	$145
Zimmer Biomet	2	$87
Embody, Inc.	1	$72
Boston Scientific	2	$39
Ossur Americas, Inc.	1	$31
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19

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

$72,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$91,816

Medicare patients

255

Services billed

1,007

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	85	$651
Tramadol Hcl	21	$67

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Thomas EickmannWestminster$145K
Joel MattaVail$21M
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Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
Theodore SchlegelGreenwood Village$5M
Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
Robert GreenhowLone Tree$2.8M
David LoucksLone Tree$2.7M
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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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