Has David Columbus, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,274 in general payments to David Columbus, DO across 190 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 David Columbus, DO 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 David Columbus, DO 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.

David Columbus, DO

Pain Medicine · Loveland, CONPI 1548237969

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (54.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 79.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,384 and has fallen 79.5% since, to $2,130 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$30,274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 190 payments — averaging $159.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$24K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$364
Painteq LLC$207
plus $318 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$16,57555%
Travel & lodging$5,41518%
Food & beverage$8,28427%

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	138	$24,038
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	14	$2,273
Vertiflex, Inc.	19	$1,950
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$1,124
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	4	$364
Painteq LLC	2	$207
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$180
Curonix LLC	1	$91
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$16
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

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.

Superion Indirect Decompression System$13,536
Intracept$7,055
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$3,661
Superion ISS$1,441
GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,115
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$828
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$370
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$284
SPRINT PNS System$273
PAINTEQ$117

How this compares

$30,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 96 pain medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$234,899

Medicare patients

455

Services billed

1,690

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
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	27	$19,526
Buprenorphine	28	$6,058
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	17	$5,782
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	81	$3,055
Gabapentin	68	$2,186
Oxycodone Hcl	83	$1,989
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	20	$1,859
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	55	$1,318
Baclofen	29	$1,164
Tramadol Hcl	82	$1,035
Tizanidine Hcl	38	$654
Duloxetine Hcl	32	$649
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	26	$616
Celecoxib	14	$553
Morphine Sulfate	11	$483

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Loveland

Mark KunzeLoveland$3K
Robert MoghimGolden$273K
Jack RentzGreenwood Village$264K
Donald BernardiniEnglewood$102K
Haley BurkeAurora$55K
Amar PatelThornton$47K
Matthew PouliotFort Collins$26K
Justin MerkowEnglewood$24K
Daniel FeldmanBroomfield$18K
Steven WrightWheat Ridge$18K

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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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