Has Richard Schaefer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $165,758 in general payments to Richard Schaefer, MD across 170 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Schaefer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Schaefer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Schaefer, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Fond du Lac, WINPI 1760464655

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $140,595 of the $165,758 with a category attached, or 84.8%. Sonex Health, Inc. accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $68,993 and has fallen 64.2% since, to $24,709 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery 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.

$165,758in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $975.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sonex Health, Inc.$165K
AbbVie$413
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$70
Mentor Worldwide LLC$39
Dilon Technologies, Inc.$37
KCI USA, Inc.$36
plus $84 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$140,59585%
Travel & lodging$18,93911%
Food & beverage$6,2244%

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
Sonex Health, Inc.	145	$165,080
AbbVie(2 entities)	13	$413
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	2	$70
Mentor Worldwide LLC	2	$39
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$37
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$36
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$31
Solventum Corporation	1	$19
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$14

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.

Sx-One Microknife$128,392
ULTRAGUIDECTR$34,262
ULTRAGUIDETFR$33,912
REVOLVE$132
NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$132
NATRELLE$103

How this compares

$165,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 45 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$162,021

Medicare patients

173

Services billed

1,478

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	30	$167
Cephalexin	13	$93

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Fond du Lac

Arlen DennyMilwaukee$31K
Daniel ButzBrookfield$17K
William DzwierzynskiMilwaukee$17K
Jenna CusicWaukesha$6K
Steve KemptonMadison$6K
Todd van YeNeenah$5K
Megan Dietze-FiedlerGreen Bay$4K
Nelson Rodriguez UndaWauwatosa$4K
Erin DorenMilwaukee$3K
Spencer KleinGreen Bay$3K

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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.

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