George Hertner
Emergency Medicine · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1699751966
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.3%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $39,293, more than ten times the $1,359 reported in 2019. Among emergency medicine 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 67 payments — averaging $950.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$64K
- Stryker$97
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$69
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,46620%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,83337%
- Travel & lodging$26,31641%
- Food & beverage$1,0682%
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 | 65 | $63,517 |
| Stryker | 1 | $97 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $69 |
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.
- I-STAT$56,312
- i-STAT portable clinical analyzer$5,098
- i-STAT 1$1,400
How this compares
$63,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,078 emergency medicine 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.
Other emergency medicine in Colorado Springs
- Michael RoshonColorado Springs$23K
- Edward EitzenColorado Springs$13K
- Carrie MarsalaColorado Springs$2K
- Elizabeth KniesColorado Springs$2K
- Christopher GallowayColorado Springs$2K
- John RagueColorado Springs$1K
- Jane FanslerColorado Springs$1K
- Robin JohnsonColorado Springs$477
- Adit GindeAurora$1.7M
- Kristin McCoyMonument$303K
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.