Kara Beasley, DO
Neurological Surgery · Boulder, CONPI 1255588190
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.7%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 78.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 156 payments — averaging $194.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$24K
- Medtronic$4K
- Insightec,inc$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$145
- Camber Spine Technologies LLC$77
- Johnson & Johnson$76
- plus $193 from 7 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1400.00 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.
- Functional Neuromodulation Inc$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,12527%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,92543%
- Travel & lodging$4,05113%
- Food & beverage$5,18817%
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 | 48 | $23,683 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 88 | $3,941 |
| Insightec,inc | 8 | $2,174 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $77 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $76 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Abbott | 1 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$8,742
- GENERAL DBS$8,377
- Exablate$1,271
- ACTIVA$888
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$764
- MazorX - Renaissance$703
- Penumbra System$290
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$127
How this compares
$30,289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 149 neurological surgery 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 neurological surgery in Boulder
- Sharad RajpalBoulder$2.8M
- Ewell NelsonBoulder$15K
- Chad PrusmackLone Tree$2.1M
- Timothy WirtFort Collins$581K
- Donn TurnerFort Collins$581K
- Ernest BraxtonEdwards$549K
- Bradley DuhonLone Tree$386K
- Peter SyreEnglewood$301K
- Sean MarkeyDenver$170K
- Peter FecciAurora$170K
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.