Has Joshua Lindsey, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $210,448 in general payments to Joshua Lindsey, MD across 238 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 Joshua Lindsey, 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 Joshua Lindsey, 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.

Joshua Lindsey, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Platteville, WINPI 1306046040

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $182,087 of the $210,448 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 86.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $56,524, more than ten times the $5,395 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in WI 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.

$210,448in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 238 payments — averaging $884.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$182K
Conformis, Inc.$10K
Johnson & Johnson$8K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$5K
Arthrex$3K
Great Lakes Orthopedics$2K
plus $843 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$182,08787%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,8254%
Travel & lodging$14,3097%
Food & beverage$4,6082%
Education$1,6181%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	167	$182,277
Conformis, Inc.	14	$9,628
Johnson & Johnson	22	$7,749
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	6	$5,010
Arthrex	17	$2,614
Great Lakes Orthopedics	9	$2,328
Linvatec Corporation	1	$800
Stryker	2	$43

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.

Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$4,950
ATTUNE$2,475
Velys$2,313
Identity Imprint CR$2,019
Identity Imprint PS$2,019
iTotal, iUni, iDuo, Hip$1,525
Kincise$1,097
Hip$1,000
LINVATEC BURS AND BLADES$800
ARTHROPLASTY INSTRUMENTS VIP TECHNOLOGY VIP 5D$350
CORAIL$204
RECLAIM$127
ACTIS$118
EMPHASYS$118

How this compares

$210,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 orthopaedic surgery providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,329

Medicare patients

Services billed

664

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
EliquisApixaban	11	$3,278
Celecoxib	156	$1,247
Oxycodone Hcl	198	$1,180
Methylprednisolone	45	$269
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	17	$166
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	39	$154
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	16	$144
Hydromorphone Hcl	21	$132
Tramadol Hcl	34	$84
Amoxicillin	50	$30
Meloxicam	18	$13
Clindamycin Hcl	12	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Platteville

Alexander StrassmanPlatteville$44K
Ting ZhangPlatteville$36K
Robert ChurchillGrafton$7.7M
Richard IllgenMadison$6.1M
Jeffrey McLaughlinOshkosh$2M
Clifford TribusMadison$1.4M
Thomas ZdeblickMadison$1.1M
Justin MitchellOnalaska$666K
Christopher BibboStevens Point$615K
Robert LimoniAppleton$514K

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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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