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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,981 in general payments to Joshua Shatsky, MD across 11 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 Shatsky, 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 Shatsky, 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 Shatsky, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Seattle, WANPI 1417116781

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,778 of the $1,981 with a category attached, or 89.8%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 62.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,880 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $29 in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in WA, where the typical reported total is $8,776.

$1,981in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $180.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$1K
Medtronic$625
Vertiflex, Inc.$64
Si-bone, Inc.$29
Johnson & Johnson$24

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,77890%
Food & beverage$20310%

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
Zimmer Biomet	6	$1,240
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$625
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$64
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$29
Johnson & Johnson	1	$24

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.

Timberline$1,167
CD HORIZON$577

How this compares

$1,981 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 33 orthopaedic trauma providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$277,446

Medicare patients

389

Services billed

1,418

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
Oxycodone Hcl	43	$345
Gabapentin	31	$224
Levofloxacin	18	$75
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$73
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic trauma in Seattle

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David BareiSeattle$543K
Michael HenleySeattle$491K
Malcolm DebaunSeattle$228K
Michael GithensSeattle$61K
Robert DunbarSeattle$24K
William LackSeattle$23K
Lisa TaitsmanSeattle$20K

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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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