Michael Nolte, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Pewaukee, WINPI 1942730163
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 81 payments — averaging $119.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Smaio SA$945
- Medwest Associates$934
- Si-bone, Inc.$597
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,65238%
- Food & beverage$5,09053%
- Education$92010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 26 | $3,009 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,300 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $1,100 |
| Smaio SA | 4 | $945 |
| Medwest Associates | 2 | $934 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $597 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $564 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $500 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $252 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $192 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- N/A$1,254
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$496
- iFuse Implant$411
- TRAUMA$266
- Pulse$175
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$175
- MaXcess$175
- Vital$168
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$150
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$146
- INTERMAXILLARY FIXATION$141
- Mobi-C$132
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$125
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$118
- VIPER$118
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$116
- AXSOS$116
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$116
- ACCOLADE$115
- VA-LCP PLATES & SCREWS$112
How this compares
$9,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 498 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 155 | $1,695 |
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 12 | $443 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 40 | $443 |
| Celecoxib | 27 | $409 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 59 | $367 |
| Methylprednisolone | 62 | $364 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $288 |
| Meloxicam | 106 | $255 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 41 | $206 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $157 |
| Diazepam | 45 | $145 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 47 | $132 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Pewaukee
- Rick PapandreaPewaukee$747K
- Robert ChurchillGrafton$8.3M
- Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
- Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
- Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
- Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
- Christopher BibboStevens Point$717K
- Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
- Robert LimoniAppleton$526K
- Paul AndersonVerona$456K
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.