Joshua Cross
Surgical · Lakewood, CONPI 1043375959
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.1%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,076, 5.0 times the $1,618 reported in 2021. Among surgical 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 155 payments — averaging $107.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$2K
- Abiomed$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.$2K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$770
- plus $5K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,48015%
- Travel & lodging$4,52527%
- Food & beverage$9,59658%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 38 | $3,670 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 13 | $2,007 |
| Abiomed | 25 | $1,998 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 15 | $1,734 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 2 | $1,650 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 2 | $770 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $747 |
| Abbott | 13 | $736 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $677 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 10 | $664 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 6 | $257 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $250 |
| BD | 3 | $227 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $221 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 2 | $199 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $69 |
| Stryker | 2 | $66 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$3,546
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,758
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,567
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$869
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$747
- FLOSEAL$656
- No Related Product$410
- HemoSphere$327
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$326
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$174
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$174
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$171
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$166
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$161
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$160
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$155
- ROTEM$148
- AlphaVac$144
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$132
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$132
How this compares
$16,600 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 495 surgical 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 | 13 | $7,606 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 16 | $161 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $134 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $77 |
| Furosemide | 21 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Lakewood
- Christine BirchemLakewood$6K
- Michael WellsAurora$26K
- Charles EttelsonDenver$24K
- Mitchell EricksonAurora$16K
- Tim FilzenColorado Springs$13K
- Charles JenningsThornton$9K
- Joshua KatzDenver$8K
- Jordyn AlmeidaDenver$8K
- Nicole KenyonDenver$7K
- Yasmeen BierwirthBoulder$6K
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.