John Leschke, MD
Neurological Surgery · Green Bay, WINPI 1164798393
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,561 of the $7,653 with a category attached, or 72.7%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,215 and has fallen 53.6% since, to $1,493 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $131.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- True North Surgical Inc$792
- Johnson & Johnson$111
- Biocomposites Inc$35
- plus $61 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,56173%
- Food & beverage$1,84224%
- Education$2503%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 19 | $4,095 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,299 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $1,259 |
| True North Surgical Inc | 6 | $792 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $111 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
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
$7,653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 133 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $315 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 59 | $194 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $107 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Green Bay
- Paul BaekGreen Bay$8K
- Karl GreenePleasant Prairie$2.1M
- Amin KassamMilwaukee$1M
- Thomas WascherAppleton$570K
- Max LeeMilwaukee$456K
- Kevin WojcikMilwaukee$58K
- Saman ShabaniMilwaukee$56K
- Marjorie WangMilwaukee$52K
- Azam AhmedMadison$35K
- Nathan ZwagermanMilwaukee$34K
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.