Richard Lennertz, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Milwaukee, WINPI 1013991520
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,898 of the $10,848 with a category attached, or 72.8%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 32.7% of the total.
Across 361 payments — averaging $30.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nevro Corp.$658
- Avanos Medical$338
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8208%
- Travel & lodging$2,12920%
- Food & beverage$7,89873%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 146 | $3,549 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,872 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 46 | $1,833 |
| Boston Scientific | 118 | $1,486 |
| Nevro Corp. | 19 | $658 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $338 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $335 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $230 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Merck | 1 | $109 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $82 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $30 |
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.
How this compares
$10,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 41 interventional pain medicine providers in Wisconsin.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 176 | $3,144 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 63 | $1,819 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 115 | $1,458 |
| Gabapentin | 57 | $1,345 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $776 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 21 | $377 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $253 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $136 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 11 | $125 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $121 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Milwaukee
- Christina MooreMilwaukee$26K
- Adegboyega LawalMilwaukee$6K
- Nancy BratanowMilwaukee$5K
- Saleem AwanMilwaukee$3K
- Navtej PurewalMilwaukee$489
- Arslan ZaidiMilwaukee$56
- Christopher HowsonGreen Bay$114K
- Matthew PileckiMount Pleasant$29K
- Nileshkumar PatelGreenfield$25K
- Daniel BrunnerNeenah$24K
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.