Has Daniel Boffa, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $25,526 in general payments to Daniel Boffa, MD across 32 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 Daniel Boffa, 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 Daniel Boffa, 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.

Daniel Boffa, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Haven, CTNPI 1538374962

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $21,500 of the $25,526 with a category attached, or 84.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $21,556 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $23 in 2025.

$25,526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $797.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$25K
Medtronic$128
AstraZeneca$38
On Target Laboratories, Inc$23

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,40513%
Food & beverage$6212%
Education$21,50084%

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	28	$25,336
Medtronic	2	$128
AstraZeneca	1	$38
On Target Laboratories, Inc	1	$23

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$19,500
Da Vinci Surgical System$5,455

How this compares

$25,526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$73,236

Medicare patients

124

Services billed

248

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New Haven

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Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K
Roland AssiNew Haven$13K
Thomas FabianNew Haven$11K
Fabio RamponiNew Haven$7K
Markus KraneNew Haven$6K
Richard SalzanoNew Haven$6K
Vincent MaseNew Haven$5K

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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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