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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,938 in general payments to Daniel Witmer, MD across 46 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 Witmer, 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 Witmer, 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 Witmer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Farmington, CTNPI 1396005419

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,373 of the $4,938 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 67.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,883 and has fallen 54.7% since, to $854 in 2025.

$4,938in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $107.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$3K
Stryker$947
Johnson & Johnson$174
Osteoremedies, LLC$159
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.$154
Amniox Medical, Inc.$103
plus $50 from 2 others

$1,654in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $1653.75 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.

Zimmer Biomet$2K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,47630%
Food & beverage$3,37368%
Education$892%

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
Zimmer Biomet	27	$3,352
Stryker	10	$947
Johnson & Johnson	2	$174
Osteoremedies, LLC	1	$159
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	2	$154
Amniox Medical, Inc.	1	$103
Smith+Nephew	2	$27
Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC	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.

How this compares

$4,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$334,763

Medicare patients

614

Services billed

2,610

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
Diclofenac Sodium	36	$717
Meloxicam	149	$703
Methocarbamol	90	$692
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	12	$628
Cephalexin	14	$514
Oxycodone Hcl	60	$491
Amoxicillin	245	$458
Minocycline Hcl	11	$325
Cefadroxil	22	$297
Gabapentin	43	$291
Tramadol Hcl	48	$174
Clindamycin Hcl	42	$136
Methylprednisolone	19	$86
Hydromorphone Hcl	12	$85
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$72

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Farmington

James PaceFarmington$721K
Isaac MossFarmington$676K
Lauren GeaneyFarmington$263K
Cory EdgarFarmington$112K
Antonio CusanoFarmington$25K
Matthew PartanFarmington$24K
Morenikeji BuraimohFarmington$22K
Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
James YueShelton$1.3M

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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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