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Industry payments to physicians · Connecticut · 2024

Connecticut

In Connecticut, drug and device makers reported $31M in general payments to 12,396 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,526 each — plus $86M tied to research and $5M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$31M
general payments
12,396
covered recipients paid
$2,526
mean per physician

Top specialties in Connecticut

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Dermatology $4M
Vascular & Interventional Radiology $2M
Neurology $2M
Orthopaedic Surgery $2M
Internal Medicine $1M
Gastroenterology $1M
Psychiatry $1M
Cardiovascular Disease $1M
Nephrology $999,350
Pulmonary Disease $827,647
Vascular Surgery $780,568
Family $759,339

Highest-paid physicians in Connecticut

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Michael Tal Vascular & Interventional Radiology · New Haven · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $1M
Michael Payette Dermatology · Cromwell · top payer: UCB, Inc. $819,483
Robert Alpern Nephrology · New Haven · top payer: Abbott Laboratories $762,591
Mona Shahriari Dermatology · Cromwell · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $523,987
Bruce Strober Dermatology · Cromwell · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $406,799
Meagen Mccusker Dermatology · Enfield · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $391,240
Brittany Craiglow Dermatology · Fairfield · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $368,452
William White Hypertension Specialist · Farmington · top payer: Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $357,302
Paul Feuerstadt Gastroenterology · Hamden · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $303,763
Peter Mcallister Neurology · Fairfield · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $301,892
Arthur Decillis Internal Medicine · Madison · top payer: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $281,288
Donald Ammerman Psychiatry · Danbury · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $279,657
Ravindra Nanda Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Farmington · top payer: Bernhard Foerster GmbH $275,000
Jeremy Moss Dermatology · Bridgeport · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $247,182
Joseph Goldberg Psychiatry · New Canaan · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $240,379
Stewart Tepper Neurology · Stamford · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $232,649
Nihar Desai Cardiovascular Disease · New Haven · top payer: Amgen Inc. $221,710
Nancy Brown Internal Medicine · New Haven · top payer: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $220,391
Ariel Lefland Neurology · New Haven · top payer: Genentech, Inc. $219,448
Paul Sethi Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenwich · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $217,113
James Yue Orthopaedic Surgery · Shelton · top payer: Aesculap AG $203,542
Peter Whang Orthopaedic Surgery · New Haven · top payer: SI-BONE, Inc. $203,342
Theodore Bruno Family Medicine · Durham · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $200,052
Brett King Dermatology · Fairfield · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $196,591
Michael Redler Hand Surgery · Trumbull · top payer: Bioventus LLC $188,666

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Connecticut — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.