Gordon Wisbach
Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1528000783
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (44.1%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 60.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $47,834 and has fallen 57.3% since, to $20,404 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CA 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.
Across 243 payments — averaging $450.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$66K
- Johnson & Johnson$40K
- Virtual Incision Corporation$2K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$380
- Davol Inc.$174
- plus $254 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41,43038%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2500%
- Travel & lodging$48,25644%
- Food & beverage$3,5903%
- Education$16,00815%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 196 | $66,036 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $39,900 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 17 | $1,640 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $1,150 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $380 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $129 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$63,331
- Mira!$1,270
- PHASIX$166
- Versajet$129
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$125
How this compares
$109,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
Other surgery in San Diego
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Peter AttiaSan Diego$300K
- Garth JacobsenSan Diego$249K
- Ryan BroderickSan Diego$204K
- Eric LuedkeSan Diego$193K
- Nikhil KansalSan Diego$171K
- Sonia RamamoorthySan Diego$131K
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.