Eric Pifel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Wauwatosa, WINPI 1760592448
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (42.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 88.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,714 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $190 in 2025.
Across 36 payments — averaging $157.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$5K
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$190
- Enduromed, LLC$155
- Smith+Nephew$146
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$115
- Si-bone, Inc.$22
- plus $15 from 1 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $29,098 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$116K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,64529%
- Food & beverage$1,60928%
- Education$2,42043%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 30 | $5,031 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Enduromed, LLC | 1 | $155 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $146 |
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 1 | $115 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Regeneten$146
How this compares
$5,675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 | 26 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Wauwatosa
- Robert PriorWauwatosa$63K
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
- Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
- Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
- Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
- Christopher BibboStevens Point$615K
- Robert LimoniAppleton$514K
- Paul AndersonVerona$456K
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.