Michael Kopstein
Interventional Cardiology · Thornton, CONPI 1902251598
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,027 of the $10,210 with a category attached, or 68.8%. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,501, more than ten times the $244 reported in 2021.
Across 196 payments — averaging $52.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abiomed$918
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$777
- Abbott$769
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,78627%
- Food & beverage$7,02769%
- Education$3974%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 29 | $2,092 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 15 | $2,090 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $1,578 |
| Abiomed | 22 | $918 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 28 | $777 |
| Abbott | 6 | $769 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $222 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $219 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $133 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $128 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $128 |
| Bayer | 4 | $124 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Amgen | 7 | $107 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 3 | $73 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $68 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $34 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Novartis | 1 | $26 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$848
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$801
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$657
- Impella$516
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$296
- CARDIOMEMS$279
- ENSITE PRECISION$273
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$219
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$160
- AVVIGO Guidance System$145
- Micra$130
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$127
- ROTAPRO$126
- Definity$115
- LifeVest$100
How this compares
$10,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.
Other interventional cardiology in Thornton
- Qaisar KhanThornton$121K
- Matthew McDiarmidThornton$52K
- Katherine SchuetzeThornton$8K
- Ehrin ArmstrongEnglewood$718K
- Gareth MorganAurora$536K
- Jamaluddin MolooAurora$272K
- Jenny Zablah AlabiAurora$269K
- Srinivas IyengarBoulder$254K
- Nima AghiliLakewood$220K
- Sridhar Sampath-KumarAurora$142K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.