Paula Vasichko
Gynecology · Denver, CONPI 1508355975
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (36.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.9% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,723 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $551 in 2025.
Across 74 payments — averaging $70.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$520
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$319
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$253
- Bayer$234
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$93
- plus $519 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,74033%
- Food & beverage$1,88436%
- Education$1,59431%
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 | 10 | $3,280 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 5 | $520 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $319 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $253 |
| Bayer | 10 | $234 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $93 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $64 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $54 |
| Organon | 3 | $54 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Merck | 3 | $52 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $41 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$5,217 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 31 gynecology providers in Colorado.
Other gynecology in Denver
- Janet ShepherdDenver$288K
- Mandi BemanDenver$29K
- Arthur WaldbaumDenver$23K
- Michael MooreDenver$8K
- Kristinell KeilDenver$3K
- Katherine DuganDenver$1K
- Sybil DessieDenver$1K
- Brenda KluherzDenver$890
- Alexander ShapiroDenver$711
- Gretchen BrunoDenver$32
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.