Jacob Kraemer, MD
Pain Medicine · Madison, WINPI 1730601907
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.8%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 29.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,318 and has fallen 59.5% since, to $1,750 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $115.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Medtronic$719
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$551
- plus $674 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,25346%
- Food & beverage$6,12954%
- Entertainment$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 41 | $3,370 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $2,829 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 17 | $2,092 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,161 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $719 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $551 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $450 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $83 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $41 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,201
- PROCLAIM$2,038
- SPRINT PNS System$1,625
- OPTABLATE$928
- SPINEJACK$719
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$483
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$266
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$247
- ETERNA$245
- OMNICURVE$209
- IonicRF$154
- Intracept$143
- Senza$110
How this compares
$11,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 82 pain medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 11 | $1,955 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $82 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Madison
- Alaa Abd-ElsayedMadison$1.3M
- Frederick FreitagMadison$157K
- Thomas FaullMadison$66K
- Kwadwo AchampongMadison$9K
- Michael GibsonMadison$8K
- Kathryn SlaughterMadison$7K
- Haroutiun HamzoianMadison$3K
- David BryceMadison$1K
- Larry MandersMadison$1K
- Michael JungWest Bend$339K
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.