Caroline Joseph, PA
Physician Assistant · Milwaukee, WINPI 1205344082
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,000 of the $16,870 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Polynovo North America LLC accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,087, more than ten times the $563 reported in 2022. Among physician assistant clinicians in WI 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 62 payments — averaging $272.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polynovo North America LLC$14K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$948
- Access Pro Medical, LLC$387
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$338
- Vericel Corporation$286
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$213
- plus $671 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,00065%
- Travel & lodging$2,96018%
- Food & beverage$2,90917%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polynovo North America LLC | 22 | $14,028 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $948 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 3 | $387 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $338 |
| Vericel Corporation | 9 | $286 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $213 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 3 | $159 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $141 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $114 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $98 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $32 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $30 |
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.
- Novosorb BTM$11,354
- Novosorb$2,400
- EVARREST$824
- Matriderm$336
- NexoBrid$150
How this compares
$16,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,804 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 22 | $201 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $48 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $42 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Milwaukee
- Lisa SershonMilwaukee$182K
- Charnai SherryMilwaukee$45K
- Joseph FraneckiMilwaukee$27K
- Kimberly Roller-VoigtMilwaukee$15K
- Dylan MenefeeMilwaukee$14K
- Amanda MuellerMilwaukee$13K
- Dalton MenkeMilwaukee$11K
- Tamyra TriceMilwaukee$10K
- Jacqueline HaleMilwaukee$8K
- Alecia BoederMilwaukee$6K
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.