Has Winston Capel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,026 in general payments to Winston Capel, MD across 142 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 Winston Capel, 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 Winston Capel, 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.

Winston Capel, MD

Neurological Surgery · Centennial, CONPI 1326012436

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,026in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $63.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$942
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$762
Globus Medical$440
Carlsmed, Inc.$332
plus $2K from 25 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,52717%
Food & beverage$5,91866%
Education$1,58218%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	30	$3,035
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	13	$1,711
Si-bone, Inc.	18	$942
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	9	$762
Globus Medical(2 entities)	7	$440
Carlsmed, Inc.	7	$332
Boston Scientific	15	$285
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	8	$242
7d Surgical Inc.	1	$209
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	2	$148
Elutia, Inc.	2	$115
Baxter Healthcare	2	$106
4web, Inc.	1	$90
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$70
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$63
Amgen	3	$54
Spineology Inc.	4	$43
Johnson & Johnson	2	$41
Solventum Corporation	2	$41
Kerecis Limited	1	$39
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$38
Prime Surgical, LLC	1	$33
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$31
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$26
Smith+Nephew	1	$23
Avanos Medical	1	$21
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$19
Bioventus LLC	1	$17
DJO, LLC	1	$17
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$17
ERMI LLC	1	$16

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.

INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$1,582
ACTIVL ARTIFICIAL DISC$1,236
iFuse Implant$342
SYNCHROMEDII$212
aprevo$190
O-ARM$167
OssDsign Catalyst$134
Adaptix$108
UNID_PASS$106
ECM Patch,Pouch$102

How this compares

$9,026 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 149 neurological surgery providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,821

Medicare patients

174

Services billed

576

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
Diclofenac Sodium	708	$11,329
Gabapentin	305	$5,602
Pregabalin	212	$3,236
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	42	$1,014
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	117	$880
Tizanidine Hcl	17	$492
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	55	$455
Nabumetone	15	$216
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	13	$201
Naproxen	11	$189
Methylprednisolone	19	$184
Levetiracetam	11	$171
Methocarbamol	18	$147
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	22	$114
Tramadol Hcl	42	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Centennial

Sharad RajpalBoulder$2.8M
Chad PrusmackLone Tree$2.1M
Ali MuradPueblo$1.5M
Alan VillavicencioBoulder$1.3M
David OrmondAurora$1.1M
Ernest BraxtonEdwards$756K
Peter FecciAurora$587K
Timothy WirtFort Collins$581K
Donn TurnerFort Collins$581K
Steven OjemannAurora$529K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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