RxDoctor Payments Data

Derek Purcell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1164478673

Payments from drug & device makers

$394in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $43.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$163
  • Alliance Medical$116
  • Smith+Nephew$50
  • Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$36
  • Heraeus Medical, LLC.$29

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$394100%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)3$163
Alliance Medical1$116
Smith+Nephew1$50
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC2$36
Heraeus Medical, LLC.2$29

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

$394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$421,054
Medicare patients
505
Services billed
14,895

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Celecoxib20$469
Diclofenac Sodium21$436
Gabapentin18$270
Oxycodone Hcl39$218
Tramadol Hcl25$125
Amoxicillin113$114
Methylprednisolone12$109
Ciprofloxacin Hcl20$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Colorado Springs

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