Wynndel Buenger, MD
Pain Medicine · Alton, ILNPI 1336257245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,672 of the $18,036 with a category attached, or 81.3%. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 28.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,563 and has fallen 72.8% since, to $1,786 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in IL 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 552 payments — averaging $32.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$3K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$1K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Medtronic$912
- plus $5K from 36 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,52714%
- Travel & lodging$5983%
- Food & beverage$14,67281%
- Education$1211%
- Entertainment$1181%
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.
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.
- PRIALT$2,527
- SPRINT PNS System$1,129
- ETERNA$705
- PROCLAIM$690
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$598
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$457
- Omnia$291
- mild Device Kit$255
- INTELLIS$206
- Senza$175
- SYNCHROMED$121
- SPINEJACK$117
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$106
How this compares
$18,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $800 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 27 | $361 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 29 | $187 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Alton
- Andrew HaydenAlton$9K
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
- Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
- Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
- Keith SchmidtHoffman Estates$81K
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.