Bret Schipper, MD
Surgical Oncology · Hartford, CTNPI 1821296500
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $13,063 of the $14,782 with a category attached, or 88.4%. Medtronic accounts for 84.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,279, more than ten times the $117 reported in 2019. Among surgical oncology clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 41 payments — averaging $360.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$491
- Johnson & Johnson$156
- Olympus America Inc.$112
- Abbott$85
- plus $192 from 6 others
Across 41 payments — averaging $1180.84 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.
- Medtronic$43K
- Covidien LP$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,06388%
- Travel & lodging$4463%
- Food & beverage$8236%
- Education$4503%
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 | 22 | $12,431 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $1,315 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $491 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $156 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Abbott | 1 | $85 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $62 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $32 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
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.
- TISSEEL$1,225
- Da Vinci Surgical System$450
- Monarch Platform$142
How this compares
$14,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 30 surgical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 15 | $52,624 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $273 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical oncology in Hartford
- Lindsay BlissHartford$2K
- Kristen ZarfosHartford$190
- Jonathan LewisWestport$115K
- Isaac KimNew Haven$35K
- Helen PassStamford$11K
- James FlahertyNew Britain$10K
- Kevin BillingsleyNew Haven$6K
- Csaba GajdosStamford$5K
- Swagoto MukhopadhyayFarmington$4K
- Ramanathan Madras SeshadriDanbury$4K
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.