Abiola Atanda, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Danbury, CTNPI 1477814671
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.2%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineart USA Inc at 40.4% of the total.
Across 198 payments — averaging $135.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineart USA Inc$11K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Stryker$3K
- 4web, Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,70010%
- Travel & lodging$15,63258%
- Food & beverage$8,51332%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineart USA Inc | 17 | $10,854 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $4,284 |
| Stryker | 32 | $3,101 |
| 4web, Inc. | 4 | $2,821 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 42 | $1,703 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,672 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 44 | $983 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $278 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $191 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $120 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Vertex | 1 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$2,980
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$2,821
- SCARLET AC-T$2,277
- Juliet LL$2,052
- EXPEDIUM$1,562
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,542
- Spinal-Stim$945
- FORTIFY$882
- Scarlet AL-T$270
- SYMPHONY$268
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$264
- CONDUIT$243
- T2 ALPHA$175
- VARIAX$172
- GAMMA$172
- N/A$162
- T2$161
- HOFFMANN$161
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$154
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$154
How this compares
$26,845 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 375 | $2,556 |
| Gabapentin | 134 | $1,015 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 157 | $1,000 |
| Meloxicam | 198 | $422 |
| Mupirocin | 29 | $270 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $174 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 50 | $159 |
| Diazepam | 17 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Danbury
- Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
- Theodore WolfsonDanbury$86K
- Jacob ModestDanbury$43K
- Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
- Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
- James YueShelton$1.3M
- James PaceFarmington$721K
- Isaac MossFarmington$676K
- David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
- John KeggiMiddlebury$264K
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.