Ezra Teitelbaum, MD
Surgery · Milwaukee, WINPI 1104052521
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $56,875 of the $85,080 with a category attached, or 66.8%. Boston Scientific accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $26,243 and has fallen 55.1% since, to $11,779 in 2025. Among surgery 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 107 payments — averaging $795.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$82K
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$950
- Intuitive Surgical$321
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$159
- Cook Incorporated$33
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,03824%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,87567%
- Travel & lodging$6,0437%
- Food & beverage$2,1242%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 82 | $81,871 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 11 | $1,747 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $950 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $321 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
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.
- SPYGLASS$33,244
- SpyGlass Discover$23,638
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$8,260
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$5,339
- Cook Medical Surgery$981
- LINX Reflux Management System$868
- GENERAL EP$528
- Cook Medical Reproductive Health$447
- SPYSCOPE$425
- EMBLEM$164
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$159
- EXALT Model D$130
- Cook Medical CBDE$124
- Da Vinci Surgical System$110
How this compares
$85,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 499 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 74 | $792 |
| Rabeprazole Sodium | 12 | $602 |
| Famotidine | 16 | $181 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Milwaukee
- Matthew GoldblattMilwaukee$594K
- Rana HigginsMilwaukee$148K
- Charles FehringMilwaukee$86K
- Jon GouldMilwaukee$77K
- Basil SalaymehMilwaukee$43K
- Kevin HudakMilwaukee$34K
- Andrew KastenmeierMilwaukee$30K
- Tammy KindelMilwaukee$29K
- James RydlewiczMilwaukee$21K
- Nicole HadjiloucasMilwaukee$21K
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.