Melissa Kersten
Nurse Practitioner · Waterford, WINPI 1316228620
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $148.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$3K
- Vericel Corporation$366
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$300
- Polynovo North America LLC$268
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$193
- Medline Industries LP$113
- plus $52 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,80042%
- Travel & lodging$59214%
- Food & beverage$1,40333%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 9 | $3,002 |
| Vericel Corporation | 7 | $366 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $300 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $268 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $193 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $113 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Molnlycke Health Care 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.
- Cohealyx$2,305
- RECELL$500
- NexoBrid$273
- Epicel$128
- Novosorb BTM$124
How this compares
$4,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,478 nurse practitioner 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 16 | $749 |
| Mupirocin | 15 | $196 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $149 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $45 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Waterford
- Cynthia CarlsonMadison$891K
- Jodi StrongStevens Point$246K
- Jo Ellen FrawleyPrairie du Sac$194K
- Trisha WilcoxMilwaukee$174K
- Sally BowaGreen Bay$117K
- Christina SauldMilwaukee$111K
- Melissa WendellWausau$98K
- Colleen TrevinoMilwaukee$94K
- Nicole BarteltWaukesha$85K
- Kari FisherPrairie du Sac$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.