Has Joseph Elsissy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $58,070 in general payments to Joseph Elsissy, MD across 165 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 Joseph Elsissy, MD 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 Joseph Elsissy, MD 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.

Joseph Elsissy, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · San Diego, CANPI 1922495712

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $47,597 of the $58,070 with a category attached, or 82.0%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arbutus Medical, Inc at 38.8% of the total.

$58,070in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $351.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arbutus Medical, Inc$23K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
Johnson & Johnson$10K
Synthes USA Products LLC$8K
Stryker$2K
Arthrex$459
plus $385 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$47,59782%
Travel & lodging$2,8405%
Food & beverage$7,63313%

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
Arbutus Medical, Inc	12	$22,521
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	17	$14,214
Johnson & Johnson	75	$9,895
Synthes USA Products LLC	8	$8,148
Stryker	44	$2,448
Arthrex	2	$459
Globus Medical	4	$202
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	3	$183

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.

How this compares

$58,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 106 orthopaedic trauma providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$63,183

Medicare patients

Services billed

129

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.

Other orthopaedic trauma in San Diego

Michelle GosselinSan Diego$26K
Ryan DeanSan Diego$13K
Ryan BeekerSan Diego$9K
Benjamin WheatleySan Diego$7K
Michael GardnerStanford$2.9M
Aaron OsborneRedding$1.3M
Robert Tonksla Jolla$1.3M
John ScolaroOrange$1M
David LowenbergSan Francisco$788K
Eric LindvallClovis$609K

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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.

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