Tom Aufderheide
Emergency Medicine · Milwaukee, WINPI 1336190859
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,400 of the $7,266 with a category attached, or 74.3%. Medtronic accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,763 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $478 in 2025. Among emergency medicine 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.
Across 18 payments — averaging $403.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- Memed US, Inc.$178
- ZOLL Medical Corporation$25
Across 13 payments — averaging $63,954 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.
- Abbott$432K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$283K
- AstraZeneca$86K
- Rapid Pathogen Screening, Inc.$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,40074%
- Travel & lodging$1,38519%
- Food & beverage$3034%
- Gifts$1782%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 16 | $7,063 |
| Memed US, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 1 | $25 |
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.
- MeMed-BV$178
How this compares
$7,266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,034 emergency medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Other emergency medicine in Milwaukee
- Stuart FeldmanMilwaukee$10K
- William FalcoMilwaukee$3K
- Michael DeckerMilwaukee$3K
- Michael BrinMilwaukee$2K
- Bernard FulaMilwaukee$2K
- William LieberMilwaukee$811
- Kevin BarberMilwaukee$661
- Andrew LauMilwaukee$628
- William WeirMilwaukee$540
- Lisa MaurerMilwaukee$536
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.