Leonardo Aponte
Family Medicine · Milwaukee, WINPI 1811970833
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $16.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$530
- Boehringer Ingelheim$260
- Gilead$215
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$125
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$115
- Alkermes, Inc.$104
- plus $435 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,784100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $530 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 18 | $260 |
| Gilead | 7 | $215 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $115 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $56 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $44 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $40 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $32 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $27 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $24 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- FARXIGA$150
- SYMBICORT$150
- TUDORZA PRESSAIR$150
- Epclusa$120
How this compares
$1,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,482 family medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Other family medicine in Milwaukee
- William PalinMilwaukee$693K
- Mario KapetsonisMilwaukee$123K
- Syed AhmedMilwaukee$78K
- Steven BondowMilwaukee$34K
- Suresh MisraMilwaukee$16K
- Ramneet BhathalMilwaukee$12K
- Roland WillockMilwaukee$7K
- Taha El-ShahatMadison$15.6M
- Jonathan MeimanMadison$4.3M
- John AgaibyKenosha$4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.