Has Christopher Frandrup, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,296 in general payments to Christopher Frandrup, MD across 87 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 Christopher Frandrup, 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 Christopher Frandrup, 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.

Christopher Frandrup, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Englewood, CONPI 1679563092

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.5% of the total across 87 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$3,296in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $37.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

SPR Therapeutics, Inc$751
Abbott$648
Boston Scientific$493
Medtronic$267
MML US, Inc.$164
Piramal Critical Care$130
plus $844 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1826%
Food & beverage$3,11494%

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
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	12	$751
Abbott	33	$648
Boston Scientific	13	$493
Medtronic	3	$267
MML US, Inc.	1	$164
Piramal Critical Care	1	$130
Lundbeck LLC	1	$125
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$109
Nevro Corp.	5	$106
AbbVie	1	$98
Indivior Inc.	3	$57
Painteq LLC	2	$56
Globus Medical	2	$54
Vertex	1	$53
Novartis	1	$49
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$45
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$33
Amgen	1	$28
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$13

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

$3,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 25 interventional pain medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$146,363

Medicare patients

132

Services billed

3,501

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	67	$2,116
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	12	$2,017
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	45	$1,692
Oxycodone Hcl	92	$1,631
Naloxone Hcl	13	$1,049
Methocarbamol	13	$627
Gabapentin	28	$624
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	20	$479
Tizanidine Hcl	26	$375
Hydromorphone Hcl	26	$305
Tramadol Hcl	26	$193

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jason KrutschLakewood$5K
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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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