Sandra A Cole, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics Inc Hospital · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · listed as Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics, Inc
• Aspirus Wausau Hospital Hospital · Wausau, WI
• Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital Hospital · Rhinelander, WI
• Mercy Health Lakeshore Campus Hospital · Shelby, MI
• Trinity Health Muskegon Hospital Hospital · Muskegon, MI

Colleagues at Surgical Associates, SC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 25 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Gabriella Maria Baran, DO Family Medicine Physician · Wausau, WI
• Dr. Robert T. Brebrick, MD Surgery Physician · Wausau, WI
• Dr. Daniel Aaron Brown, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Wausau, WI
• Jennie Corey, NP Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · Wausau, WI
• Dr. Chelsea Taylor Heisler, MD Surgery Physician · Wausau, WI
• Erin M. Kern, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Wausau, WI
• Jennine Larson, MD Trauma Surgery Physician · Wausau, WI
• Dr. Corrine Blumling Miller, MD Surgery Physician · Wausau, WI
• Kayla Michelle Poncek Nurse Practitioner · Rhinelander, WI
• Rachel Slaby, PA Physician Assistant · Wausau, WI
• Maggie Patricia Weix, NP Nurse Practitioner · Wausau, WI
• Mr. William A Wilfley Jr., MD Surgery Physician · Wausau, WI

Other providers in Wausau

• Ralph B Fairchild III, MD

  Individual Vascular Surgery Physician · NPI 1285694141

  2400 Pine Ridge Blvd, Wausau, WI 54401-7803 · (715) 847-2022