Carlos Morales Garcia, MD
Surgery · Putnam, CTNPI 1033437074
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,979 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $1,634 in 2025.
Across 85 payments — averaging $183.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- BD$2K
- THD America, Inc.$673
- Johnson & Johnson$431
- Stryker$407
- plus $628 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,15527%
- Food & beverage$2,72117%
- Education$8,71756%
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 | 25 | $10,098 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $1,757 |
| BD | 8 | $1,598 |
| THD America, Inc. | 11 | $673 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $431 |
| Stryker | 1 | $407 |
| Covidien LP | 10 | $285 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $89 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $27 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,500
- Phasix Mesh$1,464
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,109
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$407
- Echelon Powered Circular$125
How this compares
$15,593 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 289 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 46 | $201 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $200 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 41 | $165 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 22 | $135 |
| Pregabalin | 39 | $131 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 16 | $47 |
| Metronidazole | 17 | $39 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Putnam
- John MortonNew Haven$970K
- Joseph AferzonPortland$712K
- Andrew DuffyNew Haven$256K
- Sherard ChiuFairfield$148K
- Nikhilesh SekharFairfield$140K
- Anees ChagparNew Haven$121K
- Roselle CrombieFairfield$113K
- Craig FlochNorwalk$88K
- Mark FariesNew Haven$84K
- Zhongqiu ZhangMiddlebury$83K
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.