Infectious Disease in Colorado
146 providers, $843,948 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $129.
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 infectious disease clinicians in Colorado
Across 107 infectious disease clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $7,262,518 in total — an average of $67,874 each, of which $61,669 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
- 1David GriffithDenver$251,987
- 2Kenneth GreenbergDenver$162,682
- 3Shannon KasperbauerDenver$94,375
- 4Kristine ErlandsonAurora$88,223
- 5Adriana WeinbergAurora$36,342
- 6Carlos Franco ParedesAurora$25,014
- 7Steven JohnsonAurora$24,029
- 8Cynthia FirnhaberAurora$18,073
- 9Edward StenehjemAurora$14,632
- 10David WylesDenver$10,983
- 11Gwen HuittDenver$10,949
- 12Thomas CampbellAurora$10,705
- 13Sarah RowanDenver$10,680
- 14Timothy JenkinsDenver$10,201
- 15Matthew HeveyColorado Springs$7,679
- 16Andres Henao MartinezAurora$6,632
- 17Martin KrsakDenver$5,545
- 18Michelle BarronDenver$5,179
- 19Edward JanoffAurora$3,180
- 20Peter BrookmeyerColorado Springs$3,073
- 21Carl Allen BernasColorado Springs$2,793
- 22Westyn Branch-EllimanDenver$2,644
- 23Elizabeth KleinerColorado Springs$2,538
- 24Thomas HackenbergColorado Springs$2,416
- 25Jared EddyDenver$2,114
- 26Sean PawlowskiDenver$1,992
- 27Teresa CushmanWheat Ridge$1,356
- 28Paul SiebertDenver$1,277
- 29Simona OpreaDenver$1,223
- 30Marc SchulmanDenver$1,205
- 31Gabriela KaufmanDenver$1,176
- 32Kathryn SpringerDenver$1,165
- 33Robert EisonDenver$1,142
- 34Hillary DunlevyAurora$1,075
- 35Laura CosterWheat Ridge$1,071
- 36Karen WendelDenver$1,003
- 37Robert GatesColorado Springs$945
- 38Brent WielandWheat Ridge$928
- 39Jennifer RuppDurango$826
- 40Jeffrey DesjardinWheat Ridge$736
- 41Elizabeth ConnickAurora$724
- 42Katherine JohnsonWheat Ridge$671
- 43Misha HuangAurora$664
- 44Mary DegrooteWheat Ridge$643
- 45Marinka KartalijaWheat Ridge$613
- 46Amber NoonWheat Ridge$590
- 47Yumi LeeGrand Junction$541
- 48Chia Yu ChiuAurora$523
- 49Sonali HemachandraWheat Ridge$484
- 50Benjamin WhiteBroomfield$451
- 51Jing KrollAurora$394
- 52Charlotte EllenbogenWheat Ridge$391
- 53Robert WeberColorado Springs$386
- 54Vimal JhaveriDenver$368
- 55Brennan OchoaAurora$348
- 56Arathi RaoBoulder$343
- 57Sarah MannAurora$330
- 58Katrina CoulterAurora$330
- 59Tyler DegenerAurora$330
- 60John LiebermanPueblo$303