April Blackmer
Acute Care · Grand Junction, CONPI 1134625270
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,518 of the $1,738 with a category attached, or 87.3%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 47.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $632 and has fallen 62.4% since, to $238 in 2025.
Across 56 payments — averaging $31.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$833
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$221
- Sirtex Medical Inc$176
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$105
- Terumo Medical Corporation$97
- Medtronic$84
- plus $222 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,51887%
- Education$22113%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 30 | $833 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $221 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 3 | $176 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $97 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $84 |
| Stryker | 2 | $56 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 239 acute care providers in Colorado.
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 acute care in Grand Junction
- Karen ShumanGrand Junction$2K
- Tiffany MorganColorado Springs$590K
- Wendy StevensCortez$57K
- Peter ByrneLone Tree$56K
- Paige YountColorado Springs$26K
- Sarah NorwoodColorado Springs$20K
- Rachele RobertsAurora$19K
- Shari Nieman CorsoLittleton$14K
- Lauren SpitzingerDenver$13K
- Gregory CharlestonPueblo$12K
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.