Nephrology in Colorado
152 providers, $1,420,051 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $627.
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 nephrology clinicians in Colorado
Across 126 nephrology clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,738,424 in total — an average of $109,035 each, of which $108,769 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
- 1Geoffrey BlockLone Tree$726,343
- 2Laura KooiengaDenver$81,636
- 3Brad MarderDenver$76,944
- 4Richard JohnsonAurora$61,637
- 5Maria VelezDenver$47,312
- 6Paul MillerGolden$42,174
- 7Bruce KaplanAurora$41,508
- 8Michael ShomakerThornton$40,828
- 9Sixto GiustiAurora$22,856
- 10Joseph AbdallahWestminster$22,675
- 11Isaac TeitelbaumAurora$22,174
- 12Ryan MascarenhasHighlands Ranch$21,738
- 13Jessica KendrickDenver$19,973
- 14Charles EdelsteinAurora$13,145
- 15Judith BlaineAurora$8,819
- 16Bijan RoshanDenver$7,972
- 17Joshua ThurmanAurora$7,962
- 18Rajesh YalavarthyArvada$7,924
- 19Neil ManekAurora$7,697
- 20Gregory ProctorAurora$6,600
- 21Jesse FlaxenburgColorado Springs$6,020
- 22Michael ShapiroDenver$5,719
- 23Mark AlbrightColorado Springs$4,627
- 24Melinda HockensmithColorado Springs$4,433
- 25Michael RossColorado Springs$4,263
- 26Moshe LeviAurora$4,162
- 27Roger MalloryColorado Springs$4,157
- 28Harmeet SinghArvada$4,039
- 29Shailendra SharmaAurora$3,923
- 30Paul SakiewiczAurora$3,715
- 31James DylewskiDenver$3,689
- 32Derian LaiColorado Springs$3,672
- 33Gregory SchlessingerLone Tree$3,645
- 34Adolfo VillarAurora$3,621
- 35Rachita PrakashDenver$3,087
- 36Franck BelibiAurora$2,982
- 37Michel ChoncholAurora$2,860
- 38Scott HarbertsPueblo$2,792
- 39Dmitri SychevHighlands Ranch$2,040
- 40David KanarHighlands Ranch$1,994
- 41Yolanda BogaertWheat Ridge$1,941
- 42Carol GoldbergEnglewood$1,842
- 43Michael RocklinLone Tree$1,823
- 44Sameer BisaryaHighlands Ranch$1,798
- 45Elizabeth KernDenver$1,751
- 46Andrew BrookensLone Tree$1,714
- 47Sarah YoungAurora$1,678
- 48Florian ToegelAurora$1,439
- 49Srinath TamirisaGreenwood Village$1,385
- 50Stanley SicherPueblo$1,301
- 51Deepa NagarajaPueblo$1,229
- 52Steven FabianLone Tree$1,177
- 53Kajal RaoDenver$1,110
- 54Myriam LallingerAurora$1,088
- 55Anip BansalAurora$1,057
- 56Ryan FloodAurora$1,049
- 57Bruce FischLone Tree$1,046
- 58Ashley PyleAurora$997
- 59Rihab Ahmed-TahaLakewood$979
- 60Jitendar RaoAurora$974