Michael Belete, MD
Internal Medicine · Milwaukee, WINPI 1811075328
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $17.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$267
- AstraZeneca$198
- Novo Nordisk$126
- Lilly USA, LLC$117
- Pfizer$103
- Boehringer Ingelheim$80
- plus $431 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,321100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $267 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $198 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $126 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $117 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $103 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $80 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| GSK | 3 | $37 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Gilead | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Bayer | 1 | $26 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $17 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $11 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,411 internal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 194 | $188,521 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 89 | $115,165 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 36 | $41,795 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 55 | $40,642 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 40 | $40,084 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 34 | $30,303 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 40 | $27,043 |
| EliquisApixaban | 37 | $25,693 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 39 | $22,120 |
| Insulin Lispro Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro | 60 | $16,793 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 65 | $16,550 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 124 | $14,096 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 31 | $12,716 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 18 | $11,705 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 16 | $11,374 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $117 | $188,521194 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat, Glyxambi, Combivent Respimat | $80 | $139,523130 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $37 | $50,46097 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $29 | $41,79536 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $267 | $40,64255 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $126 | $40,08440 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $103 | $25,69337 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $198 | $16,55065 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 1,411 internal medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Other internal medicine in Milwaukee
- Jeremiah DeptaMilwaukee$2.2M
- Gilbert JenouriMilwaukee$2.2M
- Joanna ZurkoMilwaukee$340K
- Erik StilpMilwaukee$190K
- Jeffrey WhittleMilwaukee$138K
- Hammam ShereefMilwaukee$55K
- Muhammad ZamanMilwaukee$37K
- Turgut ZiaMilwaukee$17K
- Mohammad KhanMilwaukee$16K
- Leonard EgedeMilwaukee$12K
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.