Farshad Farnejad, MD
Surgery · Thornton, CONPI 1710172978
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $78,000 of the $94,869 with a category attached, or 82.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.0% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $40,170 and has fallen 72.2% since, to $11,171 in 2025. Among surgery 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.
Across 168 payments — averaging $564.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$90K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- BTG International Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$540
- Johnson & Johnson$122
- plus $448 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,7504%
- Travel & lodging$6,0086%
- Food & beverage$6,9877%
- Education$78,00082%
- Gifts$1240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 104 | $90,150 |
| Davol Inc. | 12 | $1,449 |
| BTG International Inc. | 9 | $1,144 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,016 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $540 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $122 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| BD | 1 | $54 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $24 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$85,538
- DA VINCI SP$3,750
- Phasix Mesh$1,087
- CROFAB$907
- OviTex 2S$275
- DAVINCI XI$102
How this compares
$94,869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 469 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Thornton
- Doru GeorgescuThornton$32K
- Philip WoodworthLone Tree$1.3M
- Reginald BellLone Tree$1M
- Anthony CanfieldDenver$854K
- Jonathan SchoeffLone Tree$522K
- Graham LitchmanLone Tree$308K
- Khoi leFort Collins$273K
- Sandeep VijanWalsenburg$222K
- Kian ModanlouEnglewood$221K
- Turner LisleVail$161K
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.