Has Joseph Pusateri received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,582 in general payments to Joseph Pusateri across 219 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 Pusateri 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 Pusateri 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 Pusateri

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1669769519

Payments from drug & device makers

$34,582in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 219 payments — averaging $157.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Kerecis Limited$18K
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$5K
Boston Scientific$2K
Acell, Inc.$2K
KCI USA, Inc.$925
Stryker$853
plus $6K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,60019%
Speaking & faculty fees$14,10041%
Travel & lodging$1,4794%
Food & beverage$12,40336%

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
Kerecis Limited	10	$18,362
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	43	$5,170
Boston Scientific	23	$1,996
Acell, Inc.	3	$1,609
KCI USA, Inc.	9	$925
Stryker	11	$853
Organogenesis Inc.	13	$740
Reprise Biomedical, Inc.	5	$615
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	5	$608
Medtronic	10	$497
Smith+Nephew	13	$436
Biocomposites Inc	4	$354
Bioventus LLC	4	$307
AbbVie	7	$231
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$228
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	10	$167
Linvatec Corporation	1	$158
Next Science LLC	2	$153
Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.	1	$103
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	1	$100
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	2	$76
Amgen(2 entities)	4	$70
Convatec Inc.	3	$65
Novo Nordisk	3	$59
Globus Medical	2	$55
MVP Orthopedics Inc	2	$55
Acumed LLC	1	$55
DJO, LLC	2	$54
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$47
Nevro Corp.	2	$46
Solventum Corporation	2	$43
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$39
Merck	3	$36
ERMI LLC	1	$35
Vertex	1	$34
Axogen	1	$28
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$21
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$21
Hartmann USA, Inc.	1	$18
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$17
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$16
Triad Life Sciences Inc.	1	$15
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	1	$13
Cashflow Solutions, LLC	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.

Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$44,798
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$33,394
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$12,707
MIRO3D$513
VAC VERAFLO$483
GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$336
ANGIOJET$241
INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$236
INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$236
PRIMATRIX$236
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$236
INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$236
CellerateRx$228
ELUVIA$228
Puraply Antimicrobial$226
Stimulan$225
PREVENA$220
CYTAL$218
ANCHORAGE$165
HOFFMANN$163

How this compares

$34,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 850 foot & ankle surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$605,377

Medicare patients

417

Services billed

5,041

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
Ciclopirox	17	$580
Gabapentin	34	$340
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	23	$250
Doxycycline Hyclate	34	$235
Terbinafine Hcl	13	$200
Ibuprofen	15	$172
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	12	$154
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$75
Levofloxacin	12	$43
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	15	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Fort Myers

Andrew BelisFort Myers$206K
Chad SimmonsFort Myers$60K
Thomas SangiovanniCoral Gables$2.1M
Shayne JensenPanama City$1.3M
Thomas RoukisOrlando$1.1M
Craig BreslauerStuart$971K
Bradley LammWest Palm Beach$938K
Amber ShaneOrlando$830K
Jonathan BlumKissimmee$814K
Riquel GonzalezHialeah$612K

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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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