Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Sarah Burger

Surgery Appleton, WI Medical Doctor

NPI 1831538511 CMS profile 928030

2000 E Milestone Dr, Appleton, WI 54913

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General payments

$2,687

32 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Sarah Burger of Appleton, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,687 across 32 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 58th percentile of Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $612 12
2024 General $200 5
2023 General $1,493 12
2021 General $363 2
2020 General $18 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sarah Burger
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sarah Burger were reported at $612. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Sarah Burger Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $18 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $363 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $0 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $1,493 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $200 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $612 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $1,837 12 payments
  2. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $288 7 payments
  3. Organogenesis Inc. $130 1 payment
  4. Cook Medical LLC $116 3 payments
  5. Terumo Medical Corporation $104 1 payment
  6. Inari Medical, Inc. $44 1 payment
  7. LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. $31 1 payment
  8. Penumbra, Inc. $29 1 payment
  9. Becton, Dickinson and Company $28 1 payment
  10. Medtronic, Inc. $24 1 payment
  11. Other $56 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,563 28 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $849 3 payments
  3. Education $275 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft $800 8 payments
  2. GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis $547 1 payment
  3. GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo $372 2 payments
  4. STRAVIX $137 3 payments
  5. PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX $130 1 payment
  6. STRAVIX PL $129 2 payments
  7. EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control $118 1 payment
  8. Azur CX Detachable $104 1 payment
  9. Zenith Spiral-Z $88 1 payment
  10. FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S $44 1 payment
  11. Other $347 16 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

244

Median for General Surgery: 59

Drug cost

$20,355

Median for General Surgery: $393

Branded share of claims

51.2%

Median for General Surgery: 28.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 30 $17,866
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 89 $1,044
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 95 $1,044
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 30 $401

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 15,891 Part D prescribers listed as General Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 72 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$51,745

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

109

Average age 71

Services billed

348

54 women, 55 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%
Chronic kidney disease 53%
Diabetes 48%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Arthritis 41%
Heart failure 36%
COPD 30%
Depression 28%

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

32 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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 2025

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

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