Has Joel Torretti received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,131,480 in general payments to Joel Torretti across 118 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joel Torretti did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Joel Torretti come from?

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.

Joel Torretti

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · State College, PANPI 1538171384

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,126,842 of the $1,131,480 with a category attached, or 99.6%. Stryker accounts for 78.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $377,715 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $15,320 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in PA 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.

$1,131,480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $9588.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$892K
Globus Medical$161K
Medtronic$42K
Medicrea USA, Corp.$22K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$13K
Biomerieux Inc$167
plus $102 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,126,842100%
Consulting fees$1670%
Travel & lodging$1,5090%
Food & beverage$2,9620%

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
Stryker	58	$892,175
Globus Medical	31	$161,390
Medtronic	4	$41,906
Medicrea USA, Corp.	8	$22,465
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	9	$13,275
Biomerieux Inc	1	$167
Johnson & Johnson	3	$51
Avanos Medical	2	$33
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$18

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.

YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$699,231
YUKON$189,509
CALIBER$160,620
PASS-LP$22,465
Camber Cage$8,651
UNiD$8,217
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,714
OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$242
VESUVIUS$165
DENALI SPINAL SYSTEM$165
ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$165
Hedron$146
Excelsius Robotics System$127
MAGNIFY$124
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$106
TRITANIUM$106
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$104

How this compares

$1,131,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in State College

Gregory BaileyState College$1.1M
Eric EmanskiState College$88K
Ronald LakatosState College$3K
Alan HilibrandBensalem$1.4M
David AndersonBensalem$786K
Jeffrey McConnellAllentown$509K
Christopher HendersonDickson City$222K
Joshua PahysPhiladelphia$213K
David CasperPhiladelphia$195K
Scott RushtonWynnewood$93K

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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