Question 1

Has Jim Youssef received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,346,251 in general payments to Jim Youssef across 471 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Jim Youssef did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Jim Youssef come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Globus Medical(2 entities)	355	$2,155,350
MML US, Inc.	45	$62,492
CTL Medical Corporation	26	$51,929
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$37,167
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	24	$36,939
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$1,150
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	7	$666
Augmedics Inc.	2	$220
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$124
Zimmer Biomet	2	$97
Curiteva, Inc.	1	$93
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$23
Innovative Surgical Designs, Inc.	1	$0

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