RxDoctor Payments Data

Ryan Kehoe, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Brookfield, WINPI 1184675365

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,138 of the $3,475 with a category attached, or 61.5%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Catalyst Orthoscience at 35.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,614 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $185 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI, where the typical reported total is $2,708.

$3,475in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $48.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Catalyst Orthoscience$1K
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$635
  • Conformis, Inc.$511
  • Smith+Nephew$345
  • Johnson & Johnson$227
  • Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$168
  • plus $342 from 8 others
$43,300in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $43,300 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.

  • Smith+Nephew$43K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,24636%
  • Travel & lodging$913%
  • Food & beverage$2,13862%

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

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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.

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

$3,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,928
Medicare patients
227
Services billed
3,557

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin12$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Brookfield

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