Melissa Strike, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1750524286
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.1%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 93.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 18 payments — averaging $65.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Amgen$32
- AbbVie$27
- Merz North America, Inc.$20
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$66556%
- Food & beverage$51543%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,106 |
| Amgen | 1 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $27 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- LIORESAL$843
How this compares
$1,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 199 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Colorado.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| AustedoDeutetrabenazine | 21 | $64,258 |
| Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe | 11 | $8,269 |
| Baclofen | 204 | $7,711 |
| Gabapentin | 95 | $2,983 |
| Pregabalin | 38 | $1,675 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 32 | $695 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 37 | $573 |
| Clonazepam | 17 | $346 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 17 | $288 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 14 | $170 |
| Topiramate | 17 | $160 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Colorado Springs
- Stephen ScheperColorado Springs$4K
- Blaise PascaleColorado Springs$2K
- Dwight LeggettColorado Springs$2K
- Scott RossColorado Springs$2K
- Michael SparrColorado Springs$1K
- Daniel BaerColorado Springs$1K
- Drew TrainorGreenwood Village$320K
- William ScelzaEnglewood$16K
- Aakash ThakralGreeley$14K
- Alan WeintraubEnglewood$10K
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.