Michael Pudenz, MD
Anesthesiology · Madison, WINPI 1225472616
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,478 of the $7,292 with a category attached, or 61.4%. Medtronic accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,845 and has fallen 92.3% since, to $219 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 173 payments — averaging $42.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- Convatec Inc.$19
Across 1 payment — averaging $820.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$820
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,81439%
- Food & beverage$4,47861%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 172 | $7,272 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- SYNCHROMEDII$2,723
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$590
- INTELLIS$209
- PlasmaBlade$112
How this compares
$7,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 960 anesthesiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 32 | $217 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 26 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Madison
- Frederick RobertsonMadison$338K
- George ArndtMadison$202K
- John DollerschellMadison$135K
- Thomas EbertMadison$30K
- Richard BeddingfieldMadison$12K
- Afshin HeidariMadison$8K
- Jonathan KayMadison$7K
- Sabrina SamMadison$4K
- Maria FabbrociniMadison$4K
- Eric SimonMadison$3K
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.