Surgery of the Hand in Colorado
9 providers, $289,820 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in Colorado
Across 5 surgery of the hand clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $195,883 in total — an average of $39,177 each, of which $39,177 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
- 1Matthew IorioAurora$251,863
- 2Helene RetrouveyAurora$28,826
- 3Seth TebockhorstBoulder$3,861
- 4Stephanie MalliarisDenver$2,312
- 5Christopher FenderGolden$1,527
- 6Michael GordonAurora$646
- 7Michael MargolisLafayette$437
- 8Melissa KlausmeyerAurora$325
- 9Steven PetersonGrand Junction$23