Surgery of the Hand in Wisconsin
12 providers, $54,118 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in Wisconsin
Across 10 surgery of the hand clinicians in Wisconsin who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $892,458 in total — an average of $89,246 each, of which $83,813 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
- 1Morgan WeberMadison$12,107
- 2David DennisonEau Claire$10,209
- 3Matthew BoardmanMadison$7,240
- 4Liqin XuMilwaukee$5,965
- 5Kun-Tai HsuWauwatosa$5,169
- 6Curtis CrimminsMilwaukee$3,737
- 7Suzanne InchausteMadison$3,305
- 8Brian HillPleasant Prairie$2,868
- 9John BerschbackAltoona$1,661
- 10Norman BuebendorfMilwaukee$1,412
- 11Brett MichelottiMadison$393
- 12Michael BirndorfKenosha$52