Bridget Walker, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Hartford, CTNPI 1750768156
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $38,125 of the $41,322 with a category attached, or 92.3%. Saol Therapeutics Inc. accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $39,481 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $464 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 59 payments — averaging $700.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Saol Therapeutics Inc.$33K
- Medtronic$7K
- Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$756
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$719
- AbbVie$205
- AstraZeneca$124
- plus $183 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$38,12592%
- Travel & lodging$7002%
- Food & beverage$2,4966%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saol Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $32,500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $6,836 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 14 | $756 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 17 | $719 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $205 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $124 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 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.
How this compares
$41,322 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 107 physical medicine & rehabilitation 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | 60 | $1,334 |
| Gabapentin | 64 | $1,129 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 30 | $1,110 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $134 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Hartford
- Robert KrugHartford$14K
- Paul PezzinoHartford$3K
- Kathleen AbbottHartford$1K
- Brian McInerneyHartford$1K
- Maria TsarouhasHartford$1K
- Eric Kincaid-SharpHartford$578
- Raghubinder BajwaHartford$421
- Gregory de GruchyHartford$417
- Jason BittermanHartford$343
- Vincent CodispotiHartford$309
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.