Brian Schmidtberg, MD
Hand Surgery · Rocky Hill, CTNPI 1972967446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,794 with a category attached, or 66.9%. Kairos Surgical Inc accounts for 66.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,288 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $102 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $2,220.
Across 11 payments — averaging $163.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kairos Surgical Inc$1K
- Stryker$251
- Bone Support Inc.$146
- Acumed LLC$145
- Johnson & Johnson$30
- Axogen$21
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$59433%
- Education$1,20067%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $1,200 |
| Stryker | 6 | $251 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| Axogen | 1 | $21 |
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.
- ACUMED$291
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$146
- CERAMENT G$146
- InFrame Implant$145
How this compares
$1,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 54 hand 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 | 17 | $111 |
| Meloxicam | 23 | $90 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Rocky Hill
- Michael RedlerTrumbull$763K
- Richard BernsteinHamden$437K
- Lisa LattanzaNew Haven$156K
- Kenneth DonohueNew Haven$41K
- Paul ProtomastroNorwalk$16K
- Mark VitaleGreenwich$13K
- Erik CarlsonMiddlebury$13K
- Devon BandaGlastonbury$10K
- Douglas WischTorrington$9K
- Ryan NaujoksMiddletown$8K
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.