Daniel George, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Putnam, CTNPI 1952490245
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,819 of the $3,771 with a category attached, or 74.8%. Stryker accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,655 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $15 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $9,632.
Across 142 payments — averaging $26.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- DJO, LLC$222
- GSK$193
- Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$192
- Cerapedics Inc.$129
- Globus Medical$59
- plus $57 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$95225%
- Food & beverage$2,81975%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 111 | $2,920 |
| DJO, LLC | 10 | $222 |
| GSK | 11 | $193 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 2 | $192 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $59 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
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.
- SERRATO$1,082
- XIA$1,082
- TRITANIUM$1,082
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$256
- T2$143
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$129
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$117
How this compares
$3,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 305 | $2,446 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 152 | $1,898 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $1,378 |
| Lidocaine | 17 | $1,269 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 126 | $1,057 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 79 | $560 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 90 | $329 |
| Celecoxib | 26 | $243 |
| Naproxen | 22 | $178 |
| Amoxicillin | 48 | $104 |
| Lorazepam | 13 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Putnam
- Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
- Jeffrey BashMiddletown$840K
- Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
- Shirvinda WijesekeraHamden$168K
- Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
- David BombackDanbury$95K
- Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
- Lane SperoTorrington$68K
- Joseph SohnMiddletown$59K
- Daniel RubioNew Haven$39K
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.