Kirk Mitchell, MD
Surgery · Golden, CONPI 1811242605
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $17,000 of the $22,767 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 35 payments — averaging $650.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$22K
- Vantive US Healthcare LLC$136
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$125
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$33
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$29
- Smith+Nephew$26
- plus $101 from 5 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $199,180 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.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$797K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,12518%
- Food & beverage$1,6427%
- Education$17,00075%
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 | 25 | $22,317 |
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $136 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $33 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$20,854
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Renal - PD$136
- GATTEX$125
How this compares
$22,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 469 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 65 | $183 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Golden
- Philip WoodworthLone Tree$1.3M
- Reginald BellLone Tree$1M
- Anthony CanfieldDenver$854K
- Jonathan SchoeffLone Tree$522K
- Graham LitchmanLone Tree$308K
- Khoi leFort Collins$273K
- Sandeep VijanWalsenburg$222K
- Kian ModanlouEnglewood$221K
- Turner LisleVail$161K
- Michael SnyderDenver$123K
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.