Primary Care in Wisconsin
52 providers, $96,616 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $243.
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 primary care clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 29 primary care clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,019,383 in total — an average of $35,151 each, of which $34,158 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
- 1Michael PotnekMilwaukee$70,636
- 2Jennifer KrallWausau$3,658
- 3Stephanie BrownKenosha$2,588
- 4Emily OrganBrookfield$1,969
- 5Heather MeeusenPlymouth$1,879
- 6Kelly StoneMilwaukee$1,745
- 7Courtney LammMilwaukee$1,721
- 8Mary WiseMilwaukee$1,692
- 9Dayna OsborneJanesville$1,418
- 10Jennifer ErichPleasant Prairie$1,176
- 11Pauline HaririePewaukee$750
- 12Kelly ThielAppleton$545
- 13Janet BarneyKenosha$527
- 14Alexandra KochMilwaukee$525
- 15Jana ZullnerMilwaukee$461
- 16Trina KaiserStratford$442
- 17Stacy LichtigColgate$387
- 18Rebecca OttOshkosh$382
- 19Molly KelleyMadison$365
- 20Madison UmbeckMadison$302
- 21Lisa KorbanMilwaukee$301
- 22Grace KnabelWauwatosa$286
- 23Heejin KwonMilwaukee$267
- 24Austin GilbertWausau$249
- 25Hailee RichterWisconsin Rapids$248
- 26Lauren NewellMilwaukee$243
- 27Annalyse VictorWaukesha$152
- 28Kayla HotzMadison$126
- 29Cheryl GatesMilwaukee$120
- 30Stephen MoerschelGlendale$111
- 31Blanca BobadillaMilwaukee$107
- 32Amanda BradleyEau Claire$101
- 33Vicki FischerMilwaukee$100
- 34Alexandria HarrisonBaraboo$96
- 35Mollie JesbergerJanesville$92
- 36Rebecca VissersMilwaukee$86
- 37Melody MartinezFond du Lac$86
- 38Megan ArgallMilwaukee$84
- 39Betsy BeckMilwaukee$70
- 40Brittany FasseMilwaukee$70
- 41Kristen HoyordStevens Point$67
- 42Julie Lassala Crosse$62
- 43Pamela SchultzWauwatosa$58
- 44Molly UllenbergBrookfield$55
- 45Sarah BauwensAppleton$44
- 46Emma ColeIron River$38
- 47Mary Devine TouheyHartland$27
- 48Elizabeth StevensonMadison$26
- 49Jami LyonsChippewa Falls$23
- 50Carrie Strompolis-GallePlatteville$17
- 51Mary WrightPlymouth$16
- 52Brenda SchmittMount Horeb$15