Industry payments to physicians · Wisconsin · 2024

Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, drug and device makers reported $30M in general payments to 10,933 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,704 each — plus $84M tied to research and $3M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.

$30M

general payments

10,933

covered recipients paid

$2,704

mean per physician

Top specialties in Wisconsin

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Surgery $6M $20,765/phys

Orthopaedic Surgery $4M $11,274/phys

Neurology $1M $9,158/phys

Hematology & Oncology $1M $8,329/phys

Unspecified $1M $7,359/phys

Neurological Surgery $1M $13,738/phys

Dermatology $928,571 $6,448/phys

Family Medicine $899,577 $1,943/phys

Pulmonary Disease $826,813 $6,668/phys

Psychiatry $751,198 $4,725/phys

Ophthalmology $714,511 $4,154/phys

Cardiovascular Disease $520,160 $2,681/phys

Highest-paid physicians in Wisconsin

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Peter Ullrich Surgery · Appleton · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $5M

Robert Churchill Orthopaedic Surgery · Grafton · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M

Charles Koh Unspecified · Milwaukee · top payer: CooperSurgical, Inc. $1M

Richard Illgen Orthopaedic Surgery · Madison · top payer: Stryker Corporation $980,412

Amin Kassam Neurological Surgery · Milwaukee · top payer: Stryker Corporation $812,381

Parameswaran Hari Hematology & Oncology · Milwaukee · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $470,338

Jennifer Parsley Family Medicine · Elk Mound · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $415,425

Ahmed Obeidat Neurology · Milwaukee · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $404,035

Inder Singh Ophthalmology · Racine · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $375,114

Scott Wiener Psychiatry · Greenfield · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $282,824

Bhupendra Khatri Neurology · Milwaukee · top payer: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $274,352

David Landwehr Endodontics · Madison · top payer: Dentsply Sirona Inc $247,859

Gabriela Maloney Dermatology · Brookfield · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $243,251

Hasnain Bawaadam Pulmonary Disease · Kenosha · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $232,158

William Lutes Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Milwaukee · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $231,706

Paul Laeseke Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Madison · top payer: HISTOSONICS, INC. $207,716

Jonathan Kurman Pulmonary Disease · Milwaukee · top payer: Pulmonx Corporation $201,717

Karl Greene Neurological Surgery · Pleasant Prairie · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $198,159

Daniel Long Neurology · Neenah · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $189,699

Alaa Abd-Elsayed Pain Medicine · Madison · top payer: Averitas Pharma Inc. $186,984

Ashley Dietrich Dermatology · Milwaukee · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $184,080

David Nelsen Dermatology · Janesville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $176,860

Deepak Sambhara Ophthalmology · Wausau · top payer: Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $166,452

Joshua Mou Emergency Medicine · Edgerton · top payer: Exact Sciences Corporation $161,550

Clifford Tribus Orthopaedic Surgery · Madison · top payer: Highridge Medical LLC $154,685

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Wisconsin — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.