Paul Wischmeyer, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Aurora, CONPI 1558454900
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,392 of the $78,110 with a category attached, or 64.5%. Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $25,010 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $12,405 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in CO 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 58 payments — averaging $1346.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$53K
- Baxter Healthcare$22K
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$2K
- American Regent$1K
- Abbott$28
Across 93 payments — averaging $17,500 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.
- Baxter Healthcare$1.1M
- Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$330K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$67K
- Radiometer America, Inc$33K
- American Regent$29K
- Cormedix Inc.$27K
- plus $22K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,39265%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,41030%
- Travel & lodging$2,0463%
- Food & beverage$2,2633%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 34 | $52,718 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 21 | $22,255 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $1,750 |
| American Regent | 1 | $1,360 |
| Abbott | 1 | $28 |
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.
- Smoflipid$23,991
- IPS - Nutrition$17,427
- Renal - Acute$4,200
How this compares
$78,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 141 critical care medicine providers in Colorado.
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.
Other critical care medicine in Aurora
- Peter HountrasAurora$86K
- Jeffrey SippelAurora$28K
- Todd BullAurora$15K
- Marvin SchwarzAurora$13K
- Jennifer RodgersAurora$7K
- Alice GrayAurora$4K
- Trevor SteinbachAurora$2K
- Jennifer TaylorAurora$2K
- Chakradhar KotaruGreenwood Village$61K
- Gregory CosgroveDenver$46K
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.