Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Wisconsin
11 providers, $11,014,172 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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 8 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $680,963 in total — an average of $85,120 each, of which $85,099 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
- 1David de WittAppleton$8,946,381
- 2Seth WilliamsMadison$949,832
- 3Clay FrankKenosha$652,233
- 4Jason SansoneMadison$261,659
- 5Michael DidinskyKenosha$157,097
- 6Eric BelinGrafton$41,445
- 7Jason PotockiStevens Point$3,243
- 8Todd FairchildStevens Point$1,758
- 9Mustafa KhanMilwaukee$364
- 10Lawrence MaciolekGlendale$86
- 11Branko PrpaMt Pleasant$74