Has Susana Wishnia, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,559 in general payments to Susana Wishnia, MD across 30 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 Susana Wishnia, 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 Susana Wishnia, 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.

Susana Wishnia, MD

Surgery · Newton, MANPI 1982610226

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,028 of the $7,559 with a category attached, or 66.5%. Medtronic accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,082 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $323 in 2025.

$7,559in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $251.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$5K
Intuitive Surgical$1K
Cardinal Health 200 LLC$575
Covidien LP$282
Boston Scientific$154
Conmed Corporation$116
plus $110 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,02867%
Food & beverage$1,53220%
Education$1,00013%

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	12	$5,283
Intuitive Surgical	5	$1,039
Cardinal Health 200 LLC	1	$575
Covidien LP	6	$282
Boston Scientific	2	$154
Conmed Corporation	1	$116
AstraZeneca	1	$46
Davol Inc.	1	$37
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$28

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.

How this compares

$7,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$20,679

Medicare patients

Services billed

131

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.

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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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