Ted Thompson
Family Medicine · la Crosse, WINPI 1083618722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 69 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $396, 6.5 times the $61 reported in 2019. Among family medicine clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 69 payments — averaging $22.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$354
- Lundbeck LLC$169
- GSK$155
- AstraZeneca$151
- Novo Nordisk$118
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$105
- plus $467 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,520100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 17 | $354 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $169 |
| GSK | 3 | $155 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $151 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $118 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 7 | $105 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $103 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $37 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $35 |
| Novartis | 2 | $34 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,520 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,482 family medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trazodone Hcl | 16 | $19 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 14 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in la Crosse
- Nathaniel Steppla Crosse$17K
- Jennifer ParsleyElk Mound$1.4M
- William PalinMilwaukee$693K
- Ryan AndrewsStevens Point$429K
- Tara DallDelafield$230K
- Mark JensonGreen Bay$204K
- James SamuelMount Pleasant$203K
- Daniel DuffyCedarburg$194K
- Scott PeschkePlymouth$193K
- Gary JohnsonMadison$178K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.