Anthony Viola, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Shelton, CTNPI 1952805673
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $9,632.
Across 28 payments — averaging $344.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$596
- Stryker$574
- Augmedics Inc.$232
- Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$155
- plus $191 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,09653%
- Travel & lodging$3,53137%
- Food & beverage$1,00510%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $6,158 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $1,726 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $596 |
| Stryker | 4 | $574 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 4 | $232 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 3 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $132 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
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.
- Arsenal Deformity$3,500
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,706
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,478
- MISCELLANEOUS$596
- Xvision$559
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$458
- INVICTUS OPEN$135
How this compares
$9,632 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Connecticut.
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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 | 34 | $253 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $190 |
| Meloxicam | 52 | $148 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Shelton
- Mark BlechnerShelton$206
- Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
- Jeffrey BashMiddletown$840K
- Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
- Shirvinda WijesekeraHamden$168K
- Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
- David BombackDanbury$95K
- Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
- Lane SperoTorrington$68K
- Joseph SohnMiddletown$59K
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.