Has Brinda Emu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,257 in general payments to Brinda Emu, MD across 36 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Brinda Emu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Brinda Emu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Brinda Emu, MD

Infectious Disease · New Haven, CTNPI 1245328509

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,713 of the $18,257 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Theratechnologies Inc. accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $8,566, more than ten times the $12 reported in 2019. Among infectious disease 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.

$18,257in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $507.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Theratechnologies Inc.$13K
Genentech, Inc.$2K
Merck$2K
Gilead$870
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$12

$147,363in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $7755.95 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.

Theratechnologies Inc.$136K
Merck$12K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$11,71364%
Speaking & faculty fees$750%
Travel & lodging$5,52030%
Food & beverage$7554%
Education$1951%

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
Theratechnologies Inc.	17	$12,821
Genentech, Inc.	2	$2,373
Merck	14	$2,182
Gilead	2	$870
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.	1	$12

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.

TROGARZO$10,043
MK-8591A$1,768
VABYSMO$913
Veklury$840
EGRIFTA$469

How this compares

$18,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 159 infectious disease providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$18,151

Medicare patients

Services billed

162

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.

Other infectious disease in New Haven

Onyema OgbuaguNew Haven$412K
Frederick AlticeNew Haven$143K
Albert KoNew Haven$43K
Michael VirataNew Haven$28K
Jason SicoNew Haven$10K
Merceditas VillanuevaNew Haven$8K
Scott RobertsNew Haven$7K
Richard MartinelloNew Haven$5K
Albert ShawNew Haven$4K
Michael CappelloNew Haven$2K

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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.

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