Fe Estelita Bernardo
Acute Care · Aurora, CONPI 1437408283
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.2% of the total across 59 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 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $759 and has fallen 74.9% since, to $190 in 2025.
Across 59 payments — averaging $40.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$341
- Medtronic$340
- Johnson & Johnson$179
- Abiomed$179
- Boston Scientific$145
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$145
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,24995%
- Education$261%
- Other$874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 6 | $341 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $340 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $179 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $179 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $145 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $145 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $126 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Merck | 7 | $123 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 6 | $123 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $105 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $87 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $50 |
| Novartis | 2 | $44 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- OPTIMIZER$265
- SensiTherm (ICE)$184
- HawkOne$176
- RESOLUTE ONYX$164
- Impella$149
- Barostim Neo System$125
- XARELTO$120
How this compares
$2,362 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 239 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 97 | $117,883 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 43 | $58,859 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 15 | $25,481 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 15 | $6,782 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 108 | $1,678 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 102 | $914 |
| Ezetimibe | 30 | $737 |
| Carvedilol | 56 | $706 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 44 | $650 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 12 | $628 |
| Torsemide | 15 | $529 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 38 | $476 |
| Losartan Potassium | 56 | $470 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 12 | $398 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 43 | $396 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $105 | $117,88397 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $44 | $58,85943 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $15 | $6,78215 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 239 acute care providers in Colorado.
Other acute care in Aurora
- Rachele RobertsAurora$19K
- Shelley BuntingAurora$11K
- Chishamiso MagayisaAurora$4K
- Kathryn RaffertyAurora$1K
- Emily TempletonAurora$1K
- Mary MauckAurora$987
- Tiffany MorganColorado Springs$590K
- Wendy StevensCortez$57K
- Peter ByrneLone Tree$56K
- Paige YountColorado Springs$26K
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.