Has Jake Bauwens, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,197 in general payments to Jake Bauwens, MD across 86 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 Jake Bauwens, 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 Jake Bauwens, 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.

Jake Bauwens, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Wauwatosa, WINPI 1639564586

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,197in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $199.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$6K
Smith+Nephew$4K
Great Lakes Orthopedics$4K
Stryker$2K
Enduromed, LLC$231
Johnson & Johnson$175
plus $186 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,76210%
Food & beverage$4,08624%
Education$11,35066%

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	43	$6,074
Smith+Nephew	5	$4,417
Great Lakes Orthopedics	6	$3,806
Stryker	24	$2,308
Enduromed, LLC	2	$231
Johnson & Johnson	2	$175
Zimmer Biomet	1	$122
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$44
Vericel Corporation	1	$20

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.

MAKO$515
T2 ALPHA$302
AXSOS$174
ORTHOLOC 3DI$165
COBRA$163
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$153
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$153
REGENETEN Shoulder$146
NA$143
TFN-Advance$143
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$140
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$131
Affixus$122
INSIGNIA$118

How this compares

$17,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,695

Medicare patients

111

Services billed

3,066

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
Celecoxib	19	$265
Meloxicam	93	$229
Oxycodone Hcl	31	$182
Tramadol Hcl	24	$130
Amoxicillin	17	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Wauwatosa

Thomas PerlewitzWauwatosa$128K
Eric PifelWauwatosa$122K
Robert PriorWauwatosa$63K
Robert ChurchillGrafton$8.3M
Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
Rick PapandreaPewaukee$747K
Christopher BibboStevens Point$717K

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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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