Leonard Welsh, MD
Surgery · Grand Junction, CONPI 1346583499
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 39 payments — averaging $321.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Medtronic$514
- Baxter Healthcare$102
- AbbVie$88
- plus $130 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,18025%
- Travel & lodging$7206%
- Food & beverage$2,13117%
- Education$6,50052%
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 | 18 | $7,943 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $2,400 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $1,355 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $514 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $102 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $88 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $50 |
| Levita Magnetics International Corp | 1 | $38 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$5,951
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$2,400
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Echelon Flex$1,032
- Signia$161
- Enseal$120
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$102
How this compares
$12,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 24 | $195 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 13 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Grand Junction
- Douglas HirthGrand Junction$93K
- Teyen ShiaoGrand Junction$60K
- Alero NannaGrand Junction$32K
- James HanoshGrand Junction$27K
- Ernest MooreDenver$2.9M
- Reginald BellLone Tree$2.1M
- Philip WoodworthLone Tree$1.4M
- Anthony CanfieldDenver$854K
- Kirk MitchellGolden$819K
- Michael CrippsAurora$770K
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.