Medical Doctor Program year 2024 Reported 2019–2024 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Robert Wiechmann

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Eau Claire, WI Medical Doctor

NPI 1659333953 CMS profile 165397

1400 Bellinger St, Eau Claire, WI 54703

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General payments

$68,044

71 records reported · program years 2019–2024

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2024

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2024, Robert Wiechmann of Eau Claire, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $68,044 across 71 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 91st percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2024 General $267 5
2023 General $3,383 6
2022 General $25,213 23
2021 General $38,290 24
2020 General $161 2
2019 General $731 11

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Robert Wiechmann
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Wiechmann were reported at $0. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Robert Wiechmann Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $731 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $161 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $38,290 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $25,213 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $3,383 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $267 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $0 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $65,893 39 payments
  2. Atricure, Inc. $1,604 26 payments
  3. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $285 3 payments
  4. Medistim USA, Inc. $134 1 payment
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $128 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Education $64,584 22 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $3,402 47 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $44 1 payment
  4. Gift $14 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2024
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System Surgery $37,500 12 payments
  2. DAVINCI XI $27,000 9 payments
  3. Da Vinci Surgical System Surgery $1,393 18 payments
  4. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $596 11 payments
  5. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $310 4 payments
  6. ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $281 5 payments
  7. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS $260 3 payments
  8. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $209 2 payments
  9. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve $163 1 payment
  10. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2) $148 3 payments
  11. Other $327 5 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 65 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$109,590

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

125

Average age 75

Services billed

267

59 women, 66 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 68%
Heart failure 54%
Atrial fibrillation 45%
Arthritis 45%
Chronic kidney disease 43%
Cancer 32%
Diabetes 31%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

71 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2024

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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