Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Timothy Kuklo

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Denver, CO Medical Doctor

NPI 1487672440 CMS profile 113272

1601 E 19Th Ave Ste 3800, Denver, CO 80218

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General payments

$1,333,763

328 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Timothy Kuklo of Denver, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,333,763 across 328 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $470,106 43
2024 General $513,623 62
2023 General $80,359 46
2022 General $37,676 29
2021 General $79,186 48
2020 General $62,031 47
2019 General $90,783 53

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Timothy Kuklo
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Timothy Kuklo were reported at $470,106. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.

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Year Timothy Kuklo Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $90,783 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $62,031 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $79,186 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $37,676 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $80,359 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $513,623 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $470,106 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Alphatec Spine, Inc $1,332,921 314 payments
  2. Abyrx, Inc $234 1 payment
  3. Cerapedics, Inc. $189 7 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $165 1 payment
  5. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $105 3 payments
  6. Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $105 1 payment
  7. Djo, LLC $44 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $907,452 19 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $338,483 36 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $78,072 159 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $9,691 108 payments
  5. Education $65 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Other - Miscellaneous $716,604 192 payments
  2. Biologics $87,490 12 payments
  3. Invictus OPEN $53,630 40 payments
  4. Battalion LLIF $45,341 10 payments
  5. OsseoScrew $42,371 8 payments
  6. BATALLION LATERAL $34,096 4 payments
  7. SafeOp $20,421 3 payments
  8. KODIAK $14,749 10 payments
  9. Invictus MIS $12,072 4 payments
  10. Battalion TLIF - PC $10,925 7 payments
  11. Other $38,703 56 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

280

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$5,194

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

17.1%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 79 $1,658
Fentanyl Generic 15 $1,227
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 48 $990
Gabapentin Generic 25 $357
Celecoxib Generic 16 $304
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 19 $156
Methocarbamol Generic 12 $150
Methylprednisolone Generic 21 $139
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 13 $116
Prednisone Generic 14 $50

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 58 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$158,827

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

149

Average age 70

Services billed

754

88 women, 61 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 69%
Depression 35%
Diabetes 26%
Osteoporosis 26%
Ischemic heart disease 17%
Chronic kidney disease 16%
COPD 13%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

328 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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