Carina Biggs, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Waterbury, CTNPI 1508832304
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $3,000 of the $3,999 with a category attached, or 75.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,053 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $263 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $133.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$386
- Coloplast$132
- CSL Behring$123
- Solventum Corporation$66
- Smith+Nephew$55
- plus $147 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2306%
- Food & beverage$76919%
- Education$3,00075%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $3,090 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $386 |
| Coloplast | 7 | $132 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $123 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $66 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $55 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $30 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $15 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,000
- RibFix Blu$304
- Kcentra$123
How this compares
$3,999 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 30 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Waterbury
- Philip CorvoWaterbury$105K
- Daniel RicaurteWaterbury$305
- David ShapiroHartford$31K
- Eric TsungBridgeport$20K
- William SymonsStamford$17K
- Noubar KevorkianNew Britain$16K
- Shannon SmallNew London$12K
- Melanie SionNew Haven$9K
- Heath WaldenDanbury$7K
- Gregory EckenrodeNorwalk$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.