Clinical Nurse Specialist in Colorado
14 providers, $90,022 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Colorado
Across 3 clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $29,634 in total — an average of $9,878 each, of which $9,878 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Michelle WhaleyLone Tree$60,527
- 2Carolyn BeckerDenver$24,490
- 3Chelsea BostelmanColorado Springs$1,926
- 4Christian EastlakeColorado Springs$1,278
- 5Kathryn TerrillDenver$733
- 6Lindsay BramwellDenver$444
- 7Erin BrooksBrighton$194
- 8Valarie MillsPueblo$177
- 9Charles DagnilloColorado Springs$90
- 10Darrella MontoyaThornton$44
- 11Patty HansenLakewood$38
- 12Lisa DreyHighlands Ranch$36
- 13Talitha MontesiLakewood$33
- 14Kathy LiberatoreDenver$13