Lisa Sasso, MD
Hand Surgery · Effingham, ILNPI 1790941581
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,184 of the $1,878 with a category attached, or 63.0%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elite Orthopedics, LLC at 48.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,357, 9.2 times the $147 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $1,668.
Across 40 payments — averaging $46.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$912
- Arthrex$482
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$219
- Amgen$84
- Endo USA, Inc.$53
- Stryker$41
- plus $88 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,18463%
- Food & beverage$69437%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 9 | $912 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $219 |
| Amgen | 4 | $84 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Stryker | 1 | $41 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Axogen | 2 | $36 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 121 hand surgery providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 223 | $493 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $118 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 14 | $113 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $72 |
| Allopurinol | 14 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Effingham
- Jeffrey VisotskyMorton Grove$1.1M
- Robert GraySkokie$422K
- Robert CoatsTinley Park$408K
- Randipsingh BindraMaywood$297K
- Jonathan TuetingAurora$190K
- Mark CohenChicago$78K
- Jeffrey StepanChicago$71K
- Leon BensonGlenview$62K
- Debdut BiswasWarrenville$56K
- Eric PerezChicago$42K
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.