Leah Derksen
Nurse Practitioner · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1922386010
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $19.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$727
- AstraZeneca$400
- Amgen$399
- Novo Nordisk$188
- Boehringer Ingelheim$170
- Heartflow, Inc.$167
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,033100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 49 | $727 |
| AstraZeneca | 25 | $400 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 18 | $399 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $188 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $170 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $155 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Novartis | 2 | $136 |
| Bayer | 7 | $132 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $123 |
| Abbott | 1 | $118 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $100 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $95 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $93 |
| Merck | 5 | $79 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $68 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Organon | 3 | $55 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $41 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| GSK | 2 | $27 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- FFRct$167
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$118
- LEQVIO$117
- RYBELSUS$116
- Repatha$109
How this compares
$4,045 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,384 nurse practitioner providers in Colorado.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $15,282 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $7,113 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 39 | $438 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 43 | $352 |
| Omeprazole | 12 | $232 |
| Allopurinol | 19 | $203 |
| Lisinopril | 27 | $191 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 19 | $181 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 13 | $177 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 13 | $164 |
| Metformin Hcl | 15 | $151 |
| Ezetimibe | 12 | $144 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 22 | $129 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $115 |
| Furosemide | 15 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $34 | $15,28213 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $95 | $7,11311 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,384 nurse practitioner providers in Colorado.
Other nurse practitioner in Colorado Springs
- Deborah HinnenColorado Springs$388K
- Lisa KeithColorado Springs$52K
- Brianne WagnerColorado Springs$11K
- Morgan TevlinColorado Springs$9K
- Jill SmothersColorado Springs$8K
- Tracey PutzColorado Springs$8K
- Chris SchabingerColorado Springs$7K
- Bridget CoyneColorado Springs$6K
- Anne ZobecColorado Springs$5K
- Kathryn BlairColorado Springs$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.