Bruce Walker
Gastroenterology · Thornton, CONPI 1790717486
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$521
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$397
- Johnson & Johnson$287
- Gilead$228
- Pfizer$178
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$632%
- Food & beverage$3,74693%
- Education$2185%
- Gifts$120%
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(2 entities) | 54 | $1,188 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 30 | $521 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 18 | $397 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $287 |
| Gilead | 13 | $228 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $178 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 12 | $166 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $143 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 8 | $129 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $117 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $115 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $54 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
| Organon | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 304 gastroenterology providers in Colorado.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $171 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Thornton
- Gareth WeinerThornton$382K
- Shazad RanaThornton$16K
- Paul DeneaultThornton$14K
- Bhaktasharan PatelColorado Springs$22M
- Marcelo KugelmasEnglewood$2.7M
- Douglas AdlerColorado Springs$1.2M
- Masi KhajaGrand Junction$1.2M
- Peter McNallyFt Carson$1.1M
- Mark GerichAurora$1M
- Raj ShahAurora$764K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.