RxDoctor Payments Data

Lisa Balduf, MD

Surgery · Boulder, CONPI 1700817434

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $18,500 of the $23,075 with a category attached, or 80.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,174 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $828 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$23,075in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $536.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$23K
  • Cook Medical LLC$41
  • Boston Scientific$37
  • Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$22
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$18
  • Covidien LP$13

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,68516%
  • Food & beverage$8774%
  • Education$18,50080%
  • Gifts$140%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$23,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 469 surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,199
Medicare patients
172
Services billed
490

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Oxycodone Hcl72$373
Neomycin Sulfate27$182
Ondansetron Hcl26$112
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen18$110
Metronidazole29$84
Tramadol Hcl19$84
Pantoprazole Sodium12$77
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron25$73

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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