Brenda Sassen, APRN
Family · Lakewood, CONPI 1740614585
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 748 payments — averaging $19.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Gilead$1K
- Pfizer$880
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$14,53599%
- Education$1731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 226 | $4,082 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 82 | $1,430 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 56 | $1,184 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 79 | $1,125 |
| Gilead | 58 | $1,053 |
| Pfizer | 46 | $880 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 29 | $875 |
| Sanofi | 25 | $659 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $613 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 33 | $596 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $296 |
| Organon | 13 | $213 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 13 | $211 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 10 | $161 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 7 | $132 |
| Merck | 7 | $132 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $112 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $75 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $40 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $40 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
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
$14,708 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,182 family 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| StelaraUstekinumab | 15 | $424,285 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 12 | $77,754 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 22 | $76,370 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 35 | $32,103 |
| MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate | 13 | $7,005 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 13 | $3,040 |
| Budesonide DrBudesonide | 17 | $2,611 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 59 | $2,468 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 122 | $940 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 13 | $751 |
| Azathioprine | 14 | $697 |
| Omeprazole | 50 | $638 |
| Famotidine | 34 | $548 |
| Spironolactone | 17 | $127 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonStelara | $1,184 | $424,28515 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $1,125 | $76,37022 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $4,082 | $32,10335 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity | $1,430 | $7,00513 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,182 family providers in Colorado.
Other family in Lakewood
- Laura GrahamLakewood$1.6M
- Ashley McKillopLakewood$14K
- Terry CheungLakewood$11K
- Danielle MarstonLakewood$10K
- Elizabeth HammondLakewood$9K
- Maryann StraleyLakewood$8K
- Megan EdwardsLakewood$7K
- Lee MorseLakewood$7K
- Corinne YoungColorado Springs$272K
- Margaret MachaffieColorado Springs$97K
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.