Has John Mitchell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,474 in general payments to John Mitchell, MD across 98 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 John Mitchell, 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 John Mitchell, 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.

John Mitchell, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Aurora, CONPI 1710071048

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (28.6%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,359 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $304 in 2025.

$52,474in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $535.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$35K
Covidien LP$16K
Medtronic$1K
F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$715
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$82
On Target Laboratories, Inc$40
plus $65 from 2 others

$2,115in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $704.88 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$11,00021%
Speaking & faculty fees$13,11525%
Travel & lodging$7,91615%
Food & beverage$4,9299%
Education$15,00029%
Gifts$5141%

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	60	$34,735
Covidien LP	21	$15,540
Medtronic(2 entities)	12	$1,298
F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG	1	$715
Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC	1	$82
On Target Laboratories, Inc	1	$40
Davol Inc.	1	$37
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$27

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

$52,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 72 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$167,752

Medicare patients

180

Services billed

405

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Aurora

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Joseph ClevelandAurora$85K
Jay PalAurora$79K
Jordan HoffmanAurora$72K
Michael FirstenbergAurora$46K
Muhammad AftabAurora$42K
Nicholas TemanAurora$35K
Jessica RoveAurora$32K
Elizabeth DavidAurora$30K

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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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