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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,333 in general payments to Joseph Nessler, MD across 120 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 Nessler, 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 Nessler, 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 Nessler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Oak Park Heights, MNNPI 1699201038

Payments from drug & device makers

$25,333in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $211.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$25K
Johnson & Johnson$248
Zimmer Biomet$202
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$75
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$67
Smith+Nephew$37
plus $90 from 5 others

$1,230in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $410.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Stryker$1K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,50018%
Travel & lodging$16,45265%
Food & beverage$4,38117%

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	102	$24,615
Johnson & Johnson	2	$248
Zimmer Biomet	2	$202
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	4	$75
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	4	$67
Smith+Nephew	1	$37
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$27
Linvatec Corporation	1	$22
AbbVie	1	$16
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$13

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.

MAKO$20,426
INSIGNIA$2,182
TRIATHLON$257
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$130
TRIDENT$119
TRITANIUM$114
ATTUNE$103

How this compares

$25,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 533 orthopaedic surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$137,627

Medicare patients

204

Services billed

1,102

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
Celecoxib	28	$961
Cephalexin	18	$409
Oxycodone Hcl	53	$216
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$139
Meloxicam	25	$89
Cefadroxil	11	$89
Pregabalin	11	$63
Amoxicillin	35	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Oak Park Heights

Mark DahlOak Park Heights$4M
Daniel BerryRochester$21.5M
Mark PagnanoRochester$14.8M
John SperlingRochester$13.5M
Robert TrousdaleRochester$12.2M
Shawn O'DriscollRochester$10.5M
Bryan Den HartogStillwater$9.1M
Joseph NesslerSartell$8.6M
David LewallenRochester$8.4M
Rafael SierraRochester$5M

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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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