Kyle Christopherson, MD
Pain Medicine · Fruita, CONPI 1184036105
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,026 of the $9,543 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 44.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,784 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $267 in 2025.
Across 175 payments — averaging $54.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Nevro Corp.$475
- Abbott$230
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$226
- Avanos Medical$212
- plus $713 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,66717%
- Travel & lodging$1,85019%
- Food & beverage$6,02663%
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 | 93 | $4,219 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 37 | $3,469 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $475 |
| Abbott | 2 | $230 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 5 | $226 |
| Avanos Medical | 7 | $212 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $187 |
| Stryker | 3 | $123 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 6 | $97 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $74 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $44 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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.
- SYNCHROMED$1,667
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,091
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$397
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$317
- mild Device Kit$150
- ETERNA$140
- SUPERION$112
- PAINTEQ$105
How this compares
$9,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 96 pain medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 15 | $322 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 18 | $206 |
| Cephalexin | 27 | $157 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Fruita
- Ellen PriceFruita$4K
- Robert MoghimGolden$273K
- Jack RentzGreenwood Village$264K
- Donald BernardiniEnglewood$102K
- Haley BurkeAurora$55K
- Amar PatelThornton$47K
- David ColumbusLoveland$30K
- Matthew PouliotFort Collins$26K
- Justin MerkowEnglewood$24K
- Daniel FeldmanBroomfield$18K
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.