Cynthia Firnhaber
Infectious Disease · Aurora, CONPI 1396299509
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $13,470 of the $18,073 with a category attached, or 74.5%. Merck accounts for 94.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,600, more than ten times the $137 reported in 2021. Among infectious disease clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 53 payments — averaging $340.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$17K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$747
- Gilead$100
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$47
- AbbVie$35
- Exact Sciences$19
Across 27 payments — averaging $18,834 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.
- Gilead$303K
- Merck$173K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$33K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,47075%
- Travel & lodging$2,82216%
- Food & beverage$1,78010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 30 | $17,124 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 15 | $747 |
| Gilead | 3 | $100 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $35 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $19 |
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
$18,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 146 infectious disease providers in Colorado.
Other infectious disease in Aurora
- Kristine ErlandsonAurora$88K
- Adriana WeinbergAurora$36K
- Carlos Franco ParedesAurora$25K
- Steven JohnsonAurora$24K
- Edward StenehjemAurora$15K
- Thomas CampbellAurora$11K
- Andres Henao MartinezAurora$7K
- Edward JanoffAurora$3K
- Hillary DunlevyAurora$1K
- Elizabeth ConnickAurora$724
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.