Matthew Fischer, MD
Pain Medicine · Appleton, WINPI 1083000319
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (30.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bioventus LLC at 44.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $11,333 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $1,101 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 138 payments — averaging $150.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bioventus LLC$9K
- Abbott$7K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
- Boston Scientific$915
- Medtronic$597
- Si-bone, Inc.$293
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,14430%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,09415%
- Travel & lodging$6,34931%
- Food & beverage$4,93724%
- Education$1931%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bioventus LLC | 15 | $9,186 |
| Abbott | 69 | $7,192 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 9 | $1,247 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $915 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $597 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $293 |
| Avanos Medical | 4 | $273 |
| Stryker | 1 | $228 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $205 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $138 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $97 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $85 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$4,556
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$3,094
- SPRINT PNS System$1,035
- Proclaim IPG$854
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$513
- SUPERION$508
- SPINEJACK$228
- INCEPTIV$167
- COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$153
- Senza$138
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$125
- INTELLIS$108
- Qutenza$106
How this compares
$20,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 60 | $798 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 59 | $608 |
| Cephalexin | 84 | $269 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $217 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $164 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $149 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 19 | $119 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Appleton
- Christina BrooksAppleton$14K
- Michael RoegnerAppleton$3K
- Brenton MeierAppleton$1K
- Taha JamilAppleton$577
- Alaa Abd-ElsayedMadison$1.3M
- Michael JungWest Bend$339K
- Frederick FreitagMadison$157K
- Atit ShahSheboygan$76K
- Thomas FaullMadison$66K
- Ammar MahmoudNeenah$57K
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.