Bassem El Hassan, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1407865751
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $251,979 of the $384,120 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 250 payments — averaging $1536.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$332K
- DJO, LLC$25K
- Arthrex$20K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Restor3d, Inc.$3K
- Zurimed Technologies Inc.$247
- plus $603 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $291,804 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Zurimed Technologies Inc.$292K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$85,54722%
- Consulting fees$251,97966%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,2503%
- Travel & lodging$29,6208%
- Food & beverage$6,7252%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 184 | $332,455 |
| DJO, LLC | 7 | $25,267 |
| Arthrex | 42 | $20,009 |
| Synthes GmbH | 4 | $2,800 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $2,739 |
| Zurimed Technologies Inc. | 1 | $247 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $156 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $146 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $122 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Stryker | 1 | $67 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $21 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- DJO SURGICAL$369,915
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$50,833
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$47,511
- AIRCAST$25,267
- DJO Surgical Turon Modular Shoulder System$9,498
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$1,126
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$591
- DJO Surgical Alians Proximal Humerus Fracture Plate$263
- Fiberlocker System$247
- Comprehensive Shoulder$122
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$103
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$103
How this compares
$384,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Rochester
- Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
- Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
- Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
- John SperlingRochester$12.2M
- Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
- David LewallenRochester$8M
- Rafael SierraRochester$4.9M
- Joaquin Sanchez-SoteloRochester$4M
- Michael TauntonRochester$3.5M
- Arlen HanssenRochester$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.