Open Payments · Wisconsin

What drug & device companies paid Wisconsin doctors

Between 2018 and 2025, companies reported $1.22B in payments to 28,440 Wisconsin physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2025.

$1.22B
reported 2018–2025
28,440
physicians paid
$43,038
avg / physician
1,916
companies paying
$18M
biggest recipient

Areas are shaded by total reported payments. Hover over an area for detail, or click it to keep the detail open. About 98% of payments map to an area by ZIP code. PO-box and unique ZIP codes are excluded. Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Wisconsin doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2025 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2025
Amgen Inc.$115M
Eli Lilly and Company$86M
Genentech, Inc.$62M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$47M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$34M
Medtronic, Inc.$33M
PFIZER INC.$29M
Biogen, Inc.$27M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$26M
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$22M

Biggest recipients

Wisconsin physicians by total received, 2018–2025
Ullrich Peter$18M
Koh Charles$16M
Lee Fred$14M
De Witt David$12M
Churchill Robert$9M
Illgen Richard$7M
Khatri Bhupendra$3M
Singh Inder$3M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2025
Orthopaedic Surgery$41M
Surgery$35M
Body Imaging$17M
Reproductive Endocrinology$16M
Neurology$9M
Hematology & Oncology$9M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spi…$7M
Family Medicine$6M

By the numbers, 2018–2025

28,440

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$1.22B

reported across 702,869 individual payments.

How Wisconsin compares nationally

Wisconsin ranks 21st of 51 for total reported payments, with $1.22B across 702,869 payments from 2018 to 2025. That is 1.3% of the $93.15B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $43,038 per recipient across 28,440 physicians and teaching hospitals, close to the $44,986 national average (15th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was Amgen Inc. at $115M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Ullrich Peter, received $18M across 20 payments.

#21
of 51 in total payments
#15
of 51 per physician
1.3%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

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