Otolaryngology in Wisconsin
168 providers, $379,236 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $352.
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 clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 147 otolaryngology clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,945,230 in total — an average of $67,655 each, of which $66,835 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
- 1Jason BrantMadison$103,202
- 2B WoodsonMilwaukee$44,796
- 3Thomas Gessertla Crosse$21,418
- 4Colleen PleinKenosha$16,273
- 5Steven SperryGreenfield$12,787
- 6David PoetkerMilwaukee$12,682
- 7Michael OldenburgGreen Bay$8,073
- 8Jamal AhmedMarshfield$8,040
- 9Hilel SwerdlinKenosha$7,728
- 10Michelle MarkMadison$6,220
- 11Madan KandulaMilwaukee$6,161
- 12Rima DefattaAltoona$5,965
- 13Robert DefattaAltoona$5,640
- 14Tanner FullmerMilwaukee$5,347
- 15Anthony RiederWauwatosa$4,720
- 16Zachary ZimmermanBeloit$4,182
- 17David FrancisMadison$4,058
- 18David MiyamaMilwaukee$3,900
- 19Zachary PflumGreenfield$3,741
- 20Jon SlezakGreen Bay$3,430
- 21Sachin PawarMilwaukee$3,403
- 22Sam KhaliliMilwaukee$3,250
- 23Larry BurtonNeenah$2,995
- 24Ethan HandlerMilwaukee$2,872
- 25Robert SonnenburgGreen Bay$2,708
- 26Ryan PucciaWauwatosa$2,593
- 27William MontagneWauwatosa$2,337
- 28Douglas DawsonGreen Bay$2,303
- 29Tasher LoseneggerMilwaukee$2,274
- 30Jonathan BockMilwaukee$2,263
- 31Michael AndersonFort Atkinson$2,202
- 32Benjamin JohnsonOshkosh$2,114
- 33Dominic CatalanoMilwaukee$2,112
- 34Rahul SubbarayanAppleton$2,035
- 35Robert PrehnNeenah$2,013
- 36Michael HarrisMilwaukee$1,863
- 37Robert GoganMequon$1,831
- 38Gregory SwansonAppleton$1,827
- 39Jaime Pena GarciaMadison$1,777
- 40Robert BechardNeenah$1,653
- 41Kenneth LewoczkoMadison$1,589
- 42Christopher KellerNeenah$1,547
- 43Ian KoszewskiMadison$1,528
- 44Samuel RacetteMilwaukee$1,389
- 45Adam CoughlinMadison$1,348
- 46Sandra LinMadison$1,323
- 47Mitchell DobberpuhlGreenfield$1,272
- 48Sarah TittmanGreen Bay$1,215
- 49Ryan FunkAppleton$1,174
- 50Patrick ShinnersEau Claire$1,113
- 51Lauren NorthMilwaukee$1,095
- 52Evan CretneySheboygan$1,077
- 53Joshua SmithMarshfield$1,055
- 54Kenneth AkakpoMilwaukee$1,052
- 55Alexander MichaelMilwaukee$1,050
- 56Axel ShumMilwaukee$1,005
- 57Scott HuntGreen Bay$955
- 58Michael ThielmanStevens Point$928
- 59Dean MartinelliOconomowoc$924
- 60David HymanGreenfield$892