Payments to doctors in Colorado

Drug and device companies reported paying $377,277,232 to 30,131 doctors and practitioners with a Colorado practice address between 2019 and 2025 — 2.2% of the national total, and 16th of 51 states.

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What was reported

$377.3 million
General payments: $377,277,232; 1,162,966 separate payments. Meals, travel, speaking and consulting fees, gifts.; $10.4 million
Research payments: $10,356,202; Funding for studies, usually paid to an institution with a doctor named on it. Shown apart from general payments and never added to them.; 30,131
Doctors and practitioners: People CMS holds at least one reported payment for with a Colorado address. Not a count of doctors in Colorado, which neither source publishes — so nothing here is divided by it.; 2.2%
Share of the national total: Of $17.3 billion in general payments reported nationally.

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The 10 largest recipients of general payments in Colorado, 2019–2025
Rank	Doctor	City	Specialty	General payments
1	PETER MILLETT	VAIL	Sports Medicine	$21,641,001
2	JOEL MATTA	VAIL	Orthopaedic Surgery	$20,997,562
3	DOUGLAS DENNIS	DENVER	Orthopaedic Surgery	$16,768,906
4	DANIEL HATCH	GREELEY	Podiatrist	$7,244,618
5	GEORGE FREY	DENVER	Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine	$5,290,001
6	BRIAN HAAS	DENVER	Orthopaedic Surgery	$5,114,009
7	THEODORE SCHLEGEL	GREENWOOD VILLAGE	Orthopaedic Surgery	$5,030,010
8	JOSEPH STEELE	ENGLEWOOD	Diagnostic Radiology	$4,886,011
9	MARK DENNIS	ENGLEWOOD	Diagnostic Radiology	$4,670,408
10	MICHAEL BAUER	CASTLE ROCK	Blood Banking & Transfusion Medicine	$4,406,189

Ranked within Colorado, by general payments only. Research funding and ownership interests are separate transactions with separate meanings and are not added in — a doctor with a large research grant and no meals is not on this list. Every doctor in the record lists the rest.

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What this page does not show

Where the work happened. The state is the practice address CMS holds for the doctor, not the place the payment was earned or the patient was seen.
Doctors CMS holds no state for. 435 of 1,693,971 profiles carry no state, holding $3,697,188 in general payments. They are in the national total and on no state page, which is why the 51 state pages do not sum to it.
Anything about influence. A payment can be a research grant, a royalty on a patent, a speaking fee or a meal. The record says what was paid and by whom, and this page makes no claim beyond that.

Data retrieved September 22, 2026

Sources

Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work. CMS declares `https://www.usa.gov/government-works` as the licence on every one of its 74 Open Payments datasets, with `accessLevel: public`. That page states a government work is "something created by a U.S. government officer or employee as part of their official duties" and is generally not protected by copyright, subject to conditions that do bind us: "You cannot use government materials in a way that implies endorsement by a government agency, official, or employee", and "You also cannot use federal government trademarks or federal government agency logos without permission." · retrieved September 22, 2026