Has Diane Thaler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,519 in general payments to Diane Thaler, MD across 66 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Diane Thaler, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Diane Thaler, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Diane Thaler, MD

Dermatology · Sturgeon Bay, WINPI 1902868490

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,519in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $23.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$930
Lilly USA, LLC$141
Bristol Myers Squibb$111
Johnson & Johnson$83
AbbVie$62
UCB, Inc.$51
plus $141 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,42694%
Education$936%

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
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	32	$930
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$141
Bristol Myers Squibb	10	$111
Johnson & Johnson	4	$83
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$62
UCB, Inc.	2	$51
Amgen	2	$49
Sanofi	2	$36
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$32
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$24

How this compares

$1,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 260 dermatology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$268,080

Medicare patients

940

Services billed

5,093

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
ErivedgeVismodegib	13	$189,924
Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab	12	$129,033
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab	15	$110,997
Dupixent PenDupilumab	11	$44,248
Clobetasol Propionate	193	$7,444
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified	13	$4,994
Doxycycline Monohydrate	172	$4,196
Triamcinolone Acetonide	145	$2,382
Fluocinonide	59	$2,315
Dutasteride	63	$2,311
Ketoconazole	163	$1,904
Metronidazole	18	$1,690
Imiquimod	54	$1,479
Finasteride	104	$1,331
ClaravisIsotretinoin	11	$1,267

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Sturgeon Bay

Lisa ArkinMadison$1.4M
David NelsenJanesville$1.1M
Kenneth GordonWauwatosa$887K
Gabriela MaloneyOconomowoc$725K
Ashley DietrichMilwaukee$466K
Martin OkunFort Atkinson$247K
Betsy WernliManitowoc$177K
Clarence Brownla Crosse$152K
Gretchen RothWauwatosa$147K
Daniel OpelSheboygan$118K

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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.

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