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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,677 in general payments to Joseph Greenlee, MD across 231 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 Greenlee, 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 Greenlee, 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 Greenlee, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1497744510

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $26,440 of the $42,677 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 65.5% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,290 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $1,326 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$42,677in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 231 payments — averaging $184.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$28K
Intuitive Surgical$5K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Abbott$2K
Medtronic$1K
Abiomed$999
plus $3K from 21 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6752%
Speaking & faculty fees$26,44062%
Travel & lodging$5,24812%
Food & beverage$10,11824%
Education$1820%
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
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	45	$27,971
Intuitive Surgical	45	$4,853
Edwards Lifesciences	18	$2,367
Abbott	27	$2,004
Medtronic(2 entities)	12	$1,074
Abiomed	12	$999
Endologix LLC	8	$881
Cook Medical LLC	17	$677
Baxter Healthcare	7	$229
Atricure, Inc.	7	$212
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	4	$193
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	6	$183
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$166
Merck	2	$135
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$133
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$117
Penumbra, Inc.	4	$105
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$79
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	2	$67
Boston Scientific	1	$66
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$31
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$28
Davol Inc.	1	$26
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$24
Solventum Corporation	1	$21
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$19
Zimmer Biomet	1	$16

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

$42,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$149,120

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

358

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
Amiodarone Hcl	15	$359
Mupirocin	35	$298
Famotidine	141	$114
Metoclopramide Hcl	116	$64
Allopurinol	35	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Wayne

Douglas GrayFort Wayne$18K
Hannah CopelandFort Wayne$16K
Barton WilliamsFort Wayne$14K
Robert RoetherFort Wayne$12K
William DeschnerFort Wayne$9K
Christopher GullettFort Wayne$7K
Marc GerdischIndianapolis$1.4M
Jason FrazierMunster$574K
James KellyGranger$242K
Sina MoainieCarmel$184K

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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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