Alan Garscadden
Pediatrics · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1629044367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Merck accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,350 and has fallen 98.3% since, to $23 in 2024. Among pediatrics 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 19 payments — averaging $74.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$77
- Pfizer$6
Across 450 payments — averaging $4631.50 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.
- Merck$918K
- Pfizer$487K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$400K
- GSK$132K
- AstraZeneca$103K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$28K
- plus $16K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$82758%
- Food & beverage$58441%
- Education$111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 17 | $1,339 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $77 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $6 |
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.
- V114$1,030
How this compares
$1,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 872 pediatrics providers in Colorado.
Other pediatrics in Colorado Springs
- Kenya LeeColorado Springs$4K
- Michael McCarthyColorado Springs$3K
- Alicia AppleColorado Springs$2K
- John KimColorado Springs$2K
- Amanda WallsColorado Springs$2K
- Linda BucherColorado Springs$2K
- Margot CrossleyColorado Springs$1K
- Jenna MtuiDenver$155K
- Erwin GelfandDenver$143K
- Amanda DempseyAurora$33K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.