Has Wael Barsoum received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,894,546 in general payments to Wael Barsoum across 356 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 Wael Barsoum 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 Wael Barsoum 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.

Wael Barsoum

Orthopaedic Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1326151408

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $8,795,744 of the $8,894,546 with a category attached, or 98.9%. Stryker accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,855,984, 2.5 times the $753,723 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in OH 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.

$8,894,546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 356 payments — averaging $24,985 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$8.9M
Exactech, Inc.$29K
Zimmer Biomet$217
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$97
Onkos Surgical, Inc.$88
Biocomposites Inc$50

$7,103in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $1775.80 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Orthosensor Inc.$7K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$8,795,74499%
Consulting fees$27,7500%
Travel & lodging$62,9941%
Food & beverage$8,0580%

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
Stryker	348	$8,865,229
Exactech, Inc.	2	$28,865
Zimmer Biomet	3	$217
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	1	$97
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$88
Biocomposites Inc	1	$50

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

$8,894,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 794 orthopaedic surgery providers in Ohio.

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Other orthopaedic surgery in Cleveland

Reuben GobezieCleveland$12M
Joseph IannottiCleveland$7.1M
Anthony MiniaciCleveland$3.1M
Kenneth GreeneCleveland$2.6M
Mark FroimsonCleveland$2.5M
Robert MolloyCleveland$2.3M
Eric RicchettiCleveland$2.1M
Thomas MrozCleveland$1.3M
Robert GillespieCleveland$672K
George ThompsonCleveland$420K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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