Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery in Wisconsin
10 providers, $15,142 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 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 10 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $826,379 in total — an average of $82,638 each, of which $82,638 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
- 1Ayman YaishBeaver Dam$5,469
- 2Todd MeyerAppleton$4,615
- 3Jessica WeddleWausau$2,550
- 4Elaine BigelowMadison$828
- 5Edward SmithSheboygan$500
- 6Scott ChaietMadison$495
- 7Michael McAvoyAppleton$296
- 8Benjamin MarcusMiddleton$150
- 9Michael McDonaldMonona$130
- 10Michael Casela Crosse$109