RxDoctor Payments Data

Bellal Joseph, MD

Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1013127174

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $96,506 of the $113,603 with a category attached, or 85.0%. CSL Behring accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$113,603in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $2318.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • CSL Behring$111K
  • Prytime Medical Devices, Inc.$2K
  • Z-medica, LLC$176
  • Teleflex LLC$173
  • Access Pro Medical, LLC$131
  • Johnson & Johnson$125
  • plus $368 from 9 others
$234,146in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $4257.21 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$85K
  • AstraZeneca$84K
  • Biogen$46K
  • KCI USA, Inc.$20K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$96,50685%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$10,94010%
  • Travel & lodging$4,7604%
  • Food & beverage$1,3761%
  • Education$200%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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.

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.

How this compares

$113,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.

See all surgery providers in Michigan

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,066
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
134

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 surgery in Detroit

See the full list for Michigan

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →