Has Sharon Lin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,017 in general payments to Sharon Lin, MD across 22 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sharon Lin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sharon Lin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sharon Lin, MD

Otolaryngology · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1619362415

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,017in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $91.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Med-el Corporation$1K
Cochlear Americas$237
Intersect ENT, Inc.$181
Stryker$110
Acclarent, Inc$83
Advanced Bionics, LLC$58
plus $20 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,00650%
Food & beverage$1,01150%

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
Med-el Corporation	6	$1,328
Cochlear Americas	7	$237
Intersect ENT, Inc.	3	$181
Stryker	3	$110
Acclarent, Inc	1	$83
Advanced Bionics, LLC	1	$58
Aerin Medical 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.

Mi1250 SYNCHRONY 2 FLEXsoft$1,314
BCI 602 Kit$1,314
ADHEAR Professional Kit$1,314
Cochlear Nucleus CI632 cochlear implant with Slim Modiolar electrode$118
Baha$118
OSIA OSI300 IMPLANT$118

How this compares

$2,017 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 174 otolaryngology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,451

Medicare patients

312

Services billed

1,075

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	32	$4,419
Mometasone Furoate	14	$1,341
Prednisolone Acetate	23	$851
Ipratropium Bromide	16	$733
Fluticasone Propionate	23	$525
Ofloxacin	34	$461
Omeprazole	25	$384
Nortriptyline Hcl	11	$185
Prednisone	17	$117
Cephalexin	13	$105
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$99

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Nicholas BeckmannColorado Springs$158K
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Robert KellerColorado Springs$45K
Edgar GallowayColorado Springs$39K
David BookColorado Springs$5K
Cameron ToddColorado Springs$4K
Jonathan ArnholtColorado Springs$4K
Elycia Kazemian-MarviColorado Springs$4K

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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.

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