Caitlin Kronenwetter, PA
Physician Assistant · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1932655966
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,111 of the $6,484 with a category attached, or 78.8%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 48.7% of the total. Among physician assistant clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 103 payments — averaging $62.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Boston Scientific$74
- Novartis$65
- Croivalve Inc$33
- plus $130 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,37221%
- Food & beverage$5,11179%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 45 | $3,159 |
| Abbott | 23 | $1,544 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $1,479 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $74 |
| Novartis | 4 | $65 |
| Croivalve Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $28 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$6,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,121 physician assistant providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 11 | $11,449 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 27 | $337 |
| Potassium Chloride | 14 | $203 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $186 |
| Furosemide | 18 | $118 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Minneapolis
- Jennifer SutherlandMinneapolis$65K
- George FroehleMinneapolis$61K
- Skye PeltierMinneapolis$33K
- Jesse PowellMinneapolis$30K
- Julia CollingMinneapolis$8K
- Ricky ChanMinneapolis$7K
- Elizabeth SchaferMinneapolis$6K
- Melinda MutschlerMinneapolis$4K
- Sara RobeckBloomington$274K
- Natalie IkemanEdina$170K
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.