Hisham Elhassan, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1477676658
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,204 of the $4,513 with a category attached, or 71.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,977, 4.1 times the $483 reported in 2019.
Across 37 payments — averaging $121.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Boston Scientific$709
- TELA Bio, Inc.$39
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$32
- Baxter Healthcare$31
- Johnson & Johnson$30
- plus $33 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,20471%
- Food & beverage$1,24528%
- Education$501%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 26 | $3,638 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $709 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $30 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $11 |
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$2,969
- Axonics$641
How this compares
$4,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 54 colon & rectal surgery providers in Indiana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 20 | $3,474 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 33 | $184 |
| Metronidazole | 42 | $147 |
| Hydrocortisone | 29 | $127 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 21 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Fort Wayne
- Joshua WalletFort Wayne$14K
- Kelly KlinkerFort Wayne$12K
- Ga-Ram HanFort Wayne$9K
- Mithun ShenoiFort Wayne$5K
- James EdlundFort Wayne$4K
- Paul ConartyFort Wayne$4K
- Virendra ParikhFort Wayne$3K
- Glenn GoldsteinFort Wayne$3K
- James ConnerFort Wayne$1K
- Nadine FloydFort Wayne$1K
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.