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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $161,370 in general payments to Joseph Wasselle, MD across 203 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 Wasselle, 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 Wasselle, 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 Wasselle, MD

Vascular Surgery · Melbourne, FLNPI 1245295898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $107,075 of the $161,370 with a category attached, or 66.4%. Medtronic accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among vascular surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$161,370in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 203 payments — averaging $794.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$113K
Globus Medical$31K
4web, Inc.$14K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$594
Abbott$485
Cook Medical LLC$427
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$31,75020%
Speaking & faculty fees$107,07566%
Travel & lodging$15,91710%
Food & beverage$6,6284%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	116	$112,835
Globus Medical	31	$31,274
4web, Inc.	16	$14,367
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	7	$594
Abbott	4	$485
Cook Medical LLC	10	$427
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	3	$299
Stryker	2	$200
Johnson & Johnson	2	$169
Davol Inc.	2	$163
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$154
Boston Scientific	1	$141
Endologix LLC	1	$132
Cordis US CORP.	1	$54
Kerecis Limited	1	$19
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$16
TEI Biosciences Inc	1	$15
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$14
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$10

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.

PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$48,694
DIVERGENCE-L$31,117
ALIF$15,857
SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$14,103
ELSA$14,031
CLYDESDALE$6,142
DIVERGENCE-L ANTERIOR/OBLIQUE LUMBAR FUSION SYSTEM$5,000
CAPSTONE$4,327
RIALTO$3,907
CD HORIZON$3,150
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$2,500
DIVERGENCE ANTERIOR CERVICAL FUSION SYSTEM$2,500
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,126
ENDURANT IIS$583
ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$365
CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$299
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$223
CONDUIT$222
Diamondback Peripheral$174
ESPRIT$156

How this compares

$161,370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$248,075

Medicare patients

346

Services billed

997

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
Cilostazol	31	$403
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	40	$393
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	48	$224
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	42	$214
Oxycodone Hcl	14	$60
Tramadol Hcl	15	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Melbourne

Peter DovganMelbourne$76K
Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$302K
Erin MooreJacksonville$300K
Rajesh MalikNaples$237K
Charles BaileyTampa$162K
Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$156K
Murray ShamesTampa$144K
K Dean ArnaoutakisTampa$115K

See the full list for Florida →

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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