Steve Cho, MD
Nuclear Imaging & Therapy · Madison, WINPI 1902945181
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $42,312 of the $46,397 with a category attached, or 91.2%. Blue Earth Diagnostics accounts for 72.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $29,735 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $7,111 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $1718.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Blue Earth Diagnostics$34K
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$9K
- GE HealthCare$2K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$300
Across 9 payments — averaging $7506.06 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.
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$68K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,31291%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,6416%
- Travel & lodging$7592%
- Food & beverage$6851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 13 | $33,770 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $8,954 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $1,848 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $1,525 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $300 |
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.
- PYLARIFY$6,775
- Axumin$2,125
- Biograph Vision 600 (8 Ring/64 CT)$300
How this compares
Too few nuclear imaging & therapy providers in Wisconsinto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 nuclear imaging & therapy in Madison
- Scott PerlmanMadison$1K
- Tomas Romero GarciaMadison$1K
- Changhee LeeMadison$324
- Anuradha ThenkondarMadison$229
- Nandakumar MenonMadison$77
- Matthew LarsonMadison$40
- Robert MeredithGreen Bay$68
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.