Cornea and External Diseases Specialist in Colorado
12 providers, $27,391 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 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Colorado
Across 9 cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,474,997 in total — an average of $163,889 each, of which $163,889 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
- 1Michael TaravellaAurora$12,185
- 2Karen ChristopherAurora$2,889
- 3Aimee VernerLongmont$2,811
- 4Christopher GelstonAurora$1,945
- 5Christopher HamptonWheat Ridge$1,486
- 6Ronald WiseDenver$1,084
- 7James SbarbaroColorado Springs$1,077
- 8Michael WildesAurora$1,074
- 9Clayton FalknorColorado Springs$1,006
- 10Brittany PerziaAurora$956
- 11Marcus NeufferUsaf Academy$445
- 12Nitin ChopraColorado Springs$432