Orthopaedic Trauma in Colorado
19 providers, $692,003 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 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Colorado
Across 15 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,459,759 in total — an average of $97,317 each, of which $97,267 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
- 1Darryl AustonThornton$191,744
- 2Cyril MauffreyDenver$190,068
- 3Jason StonebackAurora$79,315
- 4Nicholas AlfonsoAurora$57,903
- 5Austin HeareDenver$55,427
- 6Daniel WangAurora$34,815
- 7Keenan OnoderaDenver$24,077
- 8Melissa GormanAurora$15,195
- 9Conor SpadyGreeley$10,856
- 10Justin HellwinkelDenver$9,860
- 11Nathaniel SchafferDenver$7,111
- 12Philip StahelDenver$6,558
- 13Jamie EngelPueblo$4,298
- 14George ChausLongmont$3,983
- 15Gary BenedettiFrisco$543
- 16Michael RusnakFort Collins$102
- 17Andrea KingAurora$99
- 18Robert BaerFort Collins$35
- 19Duwayne CarlsonGrand Junction$16