Thomas Sec
Gerontology · Wheat Ridge, CONPI 1285197962
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $792 of the $892 with a category attached, or 88.8%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. at 47.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $866 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $14 in 2023.
Across 23 payments — averaging $38.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$421
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$172
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$100
- AbbVie$62
- Novartis$61
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$20
- plus $56 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$79289%
- Education$10011%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $421 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $172 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $62 |
| Novartis | 3 | $61 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$892 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 85 gerontology 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 | 20 | $10,447 |
| Potassium Chloride | 21 | $239 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 11 | $193 |
| Metformin Hcl | 12 | $108 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $98 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 14 | $91 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $85 |
| Furosemide | 16 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gerontology in Wheat Ridge
- Christina MulkeyWheat Ridge$2K
- Nylah BassWheat Ridge$1K
- Shannon WilliamsonWheat Ridge$340
- Peter HuntWheat Ridge$308
- Kimberly RobertsonColorado Springs$9K
- Melinda McClendonColorado Springs$8K
- Nicole ChiekaColorado Springs$6K
- Ashley ReadLoveland$5K
- Rhiannon SundayColorado Springs$5K
- Kimberly CunninghamAurora$4K
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.