Surgical Critical Care in Colorado
21 providers, $43,596 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $554.
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 surgical critical care clinicians in Colorado
Across 17 surgical critical care clinicians in Colorado who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $705,683 in total — an average of $41,511 each, of which $41,511 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
- 1Roger NagyColorado Springs$12,574
- 2Laura TrujilloColorado Springs$8,748
- 3Alexander SchwedAurora$5,539
- 4Tiffany WillardColorado Springs$5,205
- 5Aqsa ShakoorGreenwood Village$2,765
- 6Christian DennisFort Collins$2,506
- 7Abid KhanColorado Springs$1,356
- 8Thomas SchroeppelColorado Springs$952
- 9Chelsea HorwoodAurora$815
- 10Michael MetzlerLoveland$656
- 11Juan IdrovoAurora$554
- 12Daniel ValentinoColorado Springs$368
- 13Lisa SchlitzkusColorado Springs$353
- 14Tanner SpeesGrand Junction$343
- 15Rachel ThompsonLittleton$297
- 16Nathaniel PoulinColorado Springs$185
- 17Gregory DayColorado Springs$135
- 18John MooreDenver$89
- 19Kenneth PlatnickDenver$69
- 20Cassandra ReynoldsEnglewood$43
- 21Gene TullisGreeley$42