Kathleen Sawada, MD
Dermatology · Golden, CONPI 1053303115
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,243 of the $9,943 with a category attached, or 72.8%. It is spread thinly across 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.1%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,752 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $105 in 2025.
Across 218 payments — averaging $45.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- EPI Health, LLC$2K
- Biofrontera Inc.$2K
- Merz North America, Inc.$1K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$923
- AbbVie$662
- Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$634
- plus $3K from 27 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $4151.56 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.
- Bausch Health US, LLC$50K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,20012%
- Food & beverage$7,24373%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EPI Health, LLC | 8 | $1,697 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $1,529 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 6 | $1,351 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 28 | $923 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $662 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 25 | $634 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $350 |
| Amgen | 15 | $284 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $283 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 12 | $259 |
| Novartis | 9 | $231 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $226 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $195 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $171 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $167 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $156 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $120 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $95 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $48 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $31 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 2 | $27 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Organon | 1 | $19 |
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
$9,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 280 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorouracil | 12 | $703 |
| Minoxidil | 15 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Golden
- Scott WalterGolden$99K
- Stephen HuangGolden$10K
- Marcjonathan SerotaLittleton$3.2M
- Ammon LarsenLoveland$620K
- Victoria MossColorado Springs$473K
- Sheila BoyleWestminster$240K
- Mary Margaret KoberGlenwood Springs$202K
- Cathy KogerBoulder$182K
- Mona SadeghpourLone Tree$159K
- David NorrisAurora$156K
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.