Trevor Nydam, MD
Transplant Surgery · Aurora, CONPI 1215074596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $926 and has fallen 54.5% since, to $421 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for transplant surgery clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $3,794.
Across 30 payments — averaging $70.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$378
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$149
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$135
- Covidien LP$30
Across 13 payments — averaging $5674.89 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Organox Ltd$33K
- Instrumentation Laboratory Company$28K
- Accriva Diagnostics Inc.$13K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76436%
- Food & beverage$1,23758%
- Education$1286%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 17 | $1,436 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $378 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $30 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,233
- Envarsus$149
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$148
- THYMOGLOBULIN$135
How this compares
$2,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 22 transplant surgery 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.
Other transplant surgery in Aurora
- Thomas PshakAurora$33K
- Peter KennealeyAurora$31K
- Hunter MooreAurora$28K
- Phillipe Geraldo Teixeira de Abreu ReisAurora$7K
- Kendra ConzenAurora$5K
- Rashikh ChoudhuryAurora$4K
- Perveshinder GrewalAurora$3K
- James PomposelliAurora$1K
- Kristin MekeelAurora$1K
- Thomas BakAurora$840
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.