Keith Volk
Acute Care · Longmont, CONPI 1366923666
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,624 of the $5,254 with a category attached, or 69.0%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 48.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,167 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $329 in 2025. Among acute care clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 73 payments — averaging $71.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abbott$645
- Medtronic$467
- Abiomed$109
- Bayer$109
- plus $204 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,62931%
- Food & beverage$3,62469%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $2,537 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $1,183 |
| Abbott | 13 | $645 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $467 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $109 |
| Bayer | 1 | $109 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $104 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,963
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$470
- CARDIOMEMS$254
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$159
- AMPLATZER$140
- EVOQUE$125
- Watchman$124
- 3F$119
- Adempas$109
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$102
How this compares
$5,254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 239 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 37 | $52,136 |
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $15,900 |
| Bumetanide | 51 | $2,132 |
| Potassium Chloride | 86 | $2,056 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 137 | $1,987 |
| Ezetimibe | 32 | $1,085 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 38 | $778 |
| Furosemide | 109 | $688 |
| Losartan Potassium | 76 | $687 |
| Spironolactone | 63 | $648 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 37 | $565 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 14 | $497 |
| Carvedilol | 57 | $491 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 51 | $430 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 19 | $388 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Longmont
- Tiffany MorganColorado Springs$590K
- Wendy StevensCortez$57K
- Peter ByrneLone Tree$56K
- Paige YountColorado Springs$26K
- Sarah NorwoodColorado Springs$20K
- Rachele RobertsAurora$19K
- Shari Nieman CorsoLittleton$14K
- Lauren SpitzingerDenver$13K
- Gregory CharlestonPueblo$12K
- Shelley BuntingAurora$11K
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.