Steven Obrien, MD
Internal Medicine · Glenwood Springs, CONPI 1174623193
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $24.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$370
- Novartis$221
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$196
- Medtronic$170
- Amgen$142
- SK Life Science, Inc.$109
- plus $811 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,019100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $370 |
| Novartis | 8 | $221 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $196 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $170 |
| Amgen | 7 | $142 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $107 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $82 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $69 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $50 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $39 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $31 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $30 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $12 |
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.
- MINIMED 780G$170
- TZIELD$144
How this compares
$2,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 35 | $53,529 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 31 | $48,594 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 31 | $40,723 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 28 | $35,005 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 25 | $26,066 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 17 | $18,770 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 31 | $17,729 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 13 | $10,503 |
| GemtesaVibegron | 31 | $10,002 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $7,451 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 14 | $7,354 |
| ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf | 12 | $3,510 |
| Estradiol | 35 | $2,895 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 97 | $2,479 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 249 | $2,310 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $107 | $83,59959 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $69 | $53,52935 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $39 | $17,72931 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $20 | $10,00231 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $370 | $8,08432 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $49 | $997137 claims |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan | $21 | $81225 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.
Other internal medicine in Glenwood Springs
- Stanton ElziWheat Ridge$9.2M
- Jason HenryDenver$7.3M
- Kenneth CohenLakewood$4.5M
- Luke WebbColorado Springs$2.1M
- Alexis LealAurora$2M
- Mauricio WaintrubAurora$1.3M
- Steven BrodieColorado Springs$883K
- Monica GrafalsAvon$673K
- Gilad GordonBoulder$476K
- Kathryn PolovitzParker$403K
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.