Candice Cooper, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1053869784
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $131.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$3K
- Wardlow Enterprises$70
- Stryker$61
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$53
- Organogenesis Inc.$43
- Smith+Nephew$43
- plus $110 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$92724%
- Food & beverage$49513%
- Education$2,40063%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 14 | $3,442 |
| Wardlow Enterprises | 1 | $70 |
| Stryker | 4 | $61 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $43 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Novastep Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Alliance Medical | 1 | $24 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$3,822 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 181 foot & ankle surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 44 | $459 |
| Ketoconazole | 18 | $316 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $170 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $50 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Colorado Springs
- Brad DresherColorado Springs$1.3M
- William MontrossColorado Springs$239K
- John ShankColorado Springs$106K
- Matthew HinderlandColorado Springs$47K
- Jordan CameronColorado Springs$17K
- Michael SimpsonColorado Springs$13K
- Belinda LiauColorado Springs$7K
- Michael HoughtonFort Collins$2M
- Joshua MetzlEnglewood$1.9M
- Thomas ClantonVail$1.6M
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.