RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Wise, MD

Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1518252857

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$20,012in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $476.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$18K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$119
  • Baxter Healthcare$48
  • Conmed Corporation$34

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,00040%
  • Travel & lodging$4,60423%
  • Food & beverage$2,35012%
  • Education$5,01625%
  • Gifts$420%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$20,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$15,991
Medicare patients
53
Services billed
83

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Atorvastatin Calcium39$417
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate39$409
Tamsulosin Hcl39$370
Escitalopram Oxalate39$333
Oxycodone Hcl19$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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