Ross Tanis
Internal Medicine · Madison, WINPI 1861951949
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $28.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$765
- AstraZeneca$469
- CSL Behring$419
- Sanofi$270
- GSK$248
- Blueprint Medicines Corporation$231
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,45798%
- Education$742%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 22 | $765 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $469 |
| CSL Behring | 12 | $419 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $270 |
| GSK | 12 | $248 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 5 | $231 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $216 |
| Novartis | 11 | $199 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $157 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $121 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 4 | $114 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Amgen | 2 | $50 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $23 |
| Greer Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$3,530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,411 internal medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lisinopril | 26 | $167 |
| Meclizine Hcl | 15 | $137 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Madison
- Nicholas SiebersMadison$47.3M
- John BlanchardMadison$17.2M
- Stephen FlachMadison$1.6M
- James DavisMadison$303K
- Andrew NickelMadison$32K
- Jennifer WeissMadison$29K
- Amit ChitnisMadison$11K
- Kenneth CogginsMadison$10K
- Irene MirkinMiddleton$42.9M
- Carlos SanabriaWest Bend$12.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.