Pediatric Surgery in Colorado
19 providers, $3,798,941 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 pediatric surgery clinicians in Colorado
Across 1 pediatric surgery clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $12,356 in total — an average of $12,356 each, of which $12,356 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
- 1Steven RothenbergDenver$3,782,475
- 2Ann KulungowskiAurora$2,793
- 3Nathan RubalcavaDenver$2,642
- 4Steven MoultonAurora$2,128
- 5Sarah LaiDenver$1,944
- 6Suzanne YoderDenver$1,912
- 7Kristin ShipmanDenver$1,759
- 8David PartrickAurora$931
- 9Stig SommeAurora$800
- 10John WierschAurora$422
- 11Thomas RauthAurora$278
- 12Frederick KarrerAurora$269
- 13Sarkis DerderianAurora$198
- 14Saundra KayDenver$135
- 15Jose Diaz-MironAurora$109
- 16Timothy CrombleholmeAurora$89
- 17Abby LarsonAurora$40
- 18Shannon AckerAurora$16
- 19Denis BensardDenver$2