Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery in Wisconsin
10 providers, $1,112,049 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 8 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,187,602 in total — an average of $148,450 each, of which $140,144 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1William LutesKenosha$1,024,543
- 2Rafael Walker SantiagoGrafton$28,662
- 3Gordon RoedelGreen Bay$21,349
- 4Oliver ScottingMenomonee Falls$13,916
- 5Edward Nelsen FreundMilwaukee$12,907
- 6Frank RodgersMadison$6,497
- 7Charles GreenSheboygan$2,969
- 8Rusty BrandEau Claire$845
- 9Kevin WeidmanMilwaukee$192
- 10Michael SlimackKenosha$169