Has Kenneth Blake, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,936 in general payments to Kenneth Blake, MD across 79 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 Kenneth Blake, 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 Kenneth Blake, 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.

Kenneth Blake, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Lone Tree, CONPI 1174622070

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,547 of the $5,936 with a category attached, or 76.6%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,744 and has fallen 79.8% since, to $352 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $5,936.

$5,936in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $75.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$2K
Baxter Healthcare$1K
Axonics, Inc.$612
Medtronic$412
Davol Inc.$344
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$317
plus $685 from 16 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,34023%
Travel & lodging$140%
Food & beverage$4,54777%
Education$351%

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
Intuitive Surgical	35	$2,226
Baxter Healthcare	2	$1,340
Axonics, Inc.	6	$612
Medtronic	6	$412
Davol Inc.	3	$344
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	3	$317
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$132
ERBE USA Inc	2	$109
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$77
Boston Scientific	2	$69
Tempus AI, Inc	2	$38
Monaghan Medical Corporation	2	$38
Johnson & Johnson	2	$37
Activ Surgical, Inc.	1	$34
Kerecis Limited	2	$29
Avanos Medical	1	$24
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$19
Covidien LP	1	$18
Merck	1	$17
Northgate Technologies, Inc.	2	$15
Smith+Nephew	1	$15
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	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.

How this compares

$5,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 24 colon & rectal surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$77,732

Medicare patients

105

Services billed

346

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
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf	28	$4,570
Neomycin Sulfate	20	$117
Metronidazole	23	$91
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$78
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$67

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other colon & rectal surgery in Lone Tree

Douglas BensonLone Tree$10K
Monisha BanerjeeLone Tree$1K
Eben StrobosLakewood$1.3M
David LongcopeDenver$425K
Daine BennettEnglewood$28K
Christopher TaylorColorado Springs$16K
Warren StruttDenver$16K
Michael McNevinAurora$14K
Jon VogelAurora$14K
Brandon ChapmanAurora$12K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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