Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Wisconsin
15 providers, $10,244 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 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 12 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $237,466 in total — an average of $19,789 each, of which $19,789 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
- 1Scott PaxtonSheboygan Falls$8,414
- 2Melinda MerolaKenosha$442
- 3Timothy SwordsMilwaukee$319
- 4Jennifer JamisonWauwatosa$294
- 5Sara JohnsonMadison$118
- 6Lisa PetersonMilwaukee$111
- 7Amanda SommerfeldtAppleton$104
- 8Kanwardeep SinghWauwatosa$96
- 9Andrea Cordero-ReyesMilwaukee$88
- 10Jonathan GullyMilwaukee$75
- 11Emily DuffyMiddleton$70
- 12Amy JamesGreen Bay$42
- 13Kiruba VembuMadison$30
- 14Jennifer Winegardenla Crosse$25
- 15Megan ChristensonMilwaukee$15