Question 1

Has John Bissell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $840 in general payments to John Bissell, MD across 48 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 John Bissell, MD 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 John Bissell, MD 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
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	15	$272
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	9	$150
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	8	$124
Boston Scientific	2	$85
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	3	$41
USWM, LLC	2	$35
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$25
Novartis	2	$23
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$20
Shionogi Inc	1	$20
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$18
Medline Industries LP	1	$14
AstraZeneca	1	$13

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