Has David Opperman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $66,832 in general payments to David Opperman, MD across 35 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 Opperman, 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 David Opperman, 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.

David Opperman, MD

Otolaryngology · Denver, CONPI 1144399197

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $43,001 of the $66,832 with a category attached, or 64.3%. Livanova USA, Inc. accounts for 90.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $23,936 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $1,234 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$66,832in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $1909.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Livanova USA, Inc.$61K
Intuitive Surgical$6K
Sanofi$23
Johnson & Johnson$21

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,09626%
Speaking & faculty fees$43,00164%
Travel & lodging$9281%
Food & beverage$3070%
Education$5,5008%

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
Livanova USA, Inc.	23	$60,614
Intuitive Surgical	10	$6,174
Sanofi	1	$23
Johnson & Johnson	1	$21

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

$66,832 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 174 otolaryngology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$274,153

Medicare patients

134

Services billed

9,200

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
Celecoxib	23	$388
Famotidine	17	$319
Azithromycin	12	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Denver

Owen ReichmanDenver$3K
Christopher OliverDenver$3K
Christopher LenkeitDenver$2K
Elizabeth BoscoeDenver$2K
Suzanne BertramFort Collins$475K
Barton KnoxColorado Springs$164K
Nicholas BeckmannColorado Springs$151K
Vijay RamakrishnanAurora$128K
Michael WilhelmColorado Springs$76K
Andrew WinklerAurora$68K

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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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