Alex Burton
Orthopaedic Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1780002493
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $151.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$7K
- Arthrex$4K
- Enduromed, LLC$1K
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$388
- plus $250 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,23842%
- Food & beverage$5,94448%
- Education$1,20010%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 65 | $7,029 |
| Arthrex | 15 | $4,002 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 5 | $1,437 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 1 | $1,200 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 4 | $1,014 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $388 |
| Novus Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $125 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MAKO$2,930
- VARIAX$786
- STAR$498
- HOFFMANN$418
- ANCHORAGE$395
- INFINITY$272
- SONICANCHOR$172
- INBONE$168
- PANGEA$147
- T2 ALPHA$147
- GAMMA$144
- 7 X 23MM CITRELOCK IMPLANT$144
- CITREFIX$144
- PROPHECY$131
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$116
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$116
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$116
- EXTERNAL FIXATION$116
How this compares
$15,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 40 | $82 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Milwaukee
- James StoneMilwaukee$290K
- Joseph SchwabMilwaukee$194K
- Navjot KohliMilwaukee$145K
- Donald HackbarthMilwaukee$106K
- Michael DeckerMilwaukee$78K
- Caitlin OrnerMilwaukee$42K
- Elizabeth NolteMilwaukee$41K
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$8.3M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.