Has Andrew Winkler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $68,133 in general payments to Andrew Winkler, MD across 85 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 Andrew Winkler, 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 Andrew Winkler, 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.

Andrew Winkler, MD

Otolaryngology · Aurora, CONPI 1275621492

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,600 of the $68,133 with a category attached, or 65.5%. Stryker accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $58,871, more than ten times the $347 reported in 2022. Among otolaryngology clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$68,133in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $801.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$68K
Medtronic$175
Johnson & Johnson$171
Aerin Medical Inc.$168

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$44,60065%
Travel & lodging$21,38531%
Food & beverage$2,1483%

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
Stryker	81	$67,619
Medtronic	1	$175
Johnson & Johnson	2	$171
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$168

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

$68,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 174 otolaryngology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$37,546

Medicare patients

Services billed

155

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	20	$143
Cephalexin	20	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Aurora

Vijay RamakrishnanAurora$128K
Ashoke KhanwalkarAurora$28K
Stephen CassAurora$11K
Herman JenkinsAurora$5K
Anne GetzAurora$5K
Todd KingdomAurora$3K
Geoffrey FerrilAurora$3K
Brian CervenkaAurora$3K
Joseph GonzalezAurora$2K
Kimberly NelsonAurora$2K

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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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