Joseph Gonzalez, MD
Otolaryngology · Aurora, CONPI 1386030724
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,835 of the $2,338 with a category attached, or 78.5%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerin Medical Inc. at 29.9% of the total.
Across 76 payments — averaging $30.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerin Medical Inc.$699
- Stryker$416
- Sanofi$304
- GSK$293
- Smith+Nephew$185
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$106
- plus $335 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$32814%
- Food & beverage$1,83578%
- Education$1768%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 12 | $699 |
| Stryker | 5 | $416 |
| Sanofi | 16 | $304 |
| GSK | 24 | $293 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $185 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $75 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- NA$337
- VIVAER STYLUS$328
- PROCISE MAX$176
- SONOPET IQ$168
- CORE$168
- XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$155
- SCOPIS ENT$155
- CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$155
- LATERA$155
How this compares
$2,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 174 otolaryngology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ipratropium Bromide | 41 | $1,439 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 16 | $547 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 13 | $163 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 17 | $96 |
| Mupirocin | 12 | $69 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $35 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Aurora
- Vijay RamakrishnanAurora$128K
- Andrew WinklerAurora$68K
- Ashoke KhanwalkarAurora$28K
- Stephen CassAurora$11K
- Herman JenkinsAurora$5K
- Anne GetzAurora$5K
- Todd KingdomAurora$3K
- Geoffrey FerrilAurora$3K
- Brian CervenkaAurora$3K
- Kimberly NelsonAurora$2K
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.