Has Judson Cook, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,025 in general payments to Judson Cook, MD across 436 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 Judson Cook, 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 Judson Cook, 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.

Judson Cook, MD

Neurological Surgery · Cheyenne, WYNPI 1386603553

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (45.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 28.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,845, 2.2 times the $3,132 reported in 2019.

$25,025in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 436 payments — averaging $57.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$7K
Abbott$7K
Stryker$5K
Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.$3K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Medtronic$436
plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,25017%
Speaking & faculty fees$4,80019%
Travel & lodging$4,50218%
Food & beverage$11,47346%

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
Boston Scientific	238	$7,174
Abbott	55	$6,515
Stryker	28	$5,244
Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.	3	$3,045
Si-bone, Inc.	58	$1,580
Medtronic	19	$436
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$133
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$128
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	5	$96
Highridge Medical LLC	1	$93
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$86
Nevro Corp.	2	$62
Globus Medical	2	$57
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$51
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$50
CTL Medical Corporation	1	$43
Zimmer Biomet	2	$41
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$39
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$34
Vertiflex, Inc.	2	$34
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$31
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$19
Davol Inc.	1	$12
Misonix Inc	1	$11
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$11

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

Too few neurological surgery providers in Wyomingto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$206,704

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

642

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	92	$1,430
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	47	$1,169
Oxycodone Hcl	29	$807
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	14	$569
Methocarbamol	15	$344
Hydromorphone Hcl	44	$270
Gabapentin	18	$167
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$110

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Cheyenne

Claudio FelerCheyenne$5.3M
Steven BeerCheyenne$168K
Jonas SheehanCheyenne$40
Thomas KopitnikCasper$79K
Robert NarotzkyCasper$61K
Glen PoffenbargerCody$55K
Wayne WarrenCasper$8K
Paul MatzCasper$217

See the full list for Wyoming →

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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