David Gropper
Pediatrics · Danbury, CTNPI 1720060445
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 84 payments — averaging $18.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$279
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$172
- Pfizer$158
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$122
- Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.$112
- GSK$105
- plus $585 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,533100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 18 | $279 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $172 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $158 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $122 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| GSK | 6 | $105 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 4 | $89 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $78 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $54 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 2 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $20 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 681 pediatrics providers in Connecticut.
Other pediatrics in Danbury
- Bruce CohenDanbury$5K
- Rachel RothschildDanbury$3K
- Aaron SlaibyDanbury$3K
- Jamie AlonDanbury$3K
- Poonam BherwaniDanbury$2K
- Jose ArraianoDanbury$2K
- Alan MuneyDarien$369K
- Laura NallyNew Haven$184K
- Nicholas BennettHartford$102K
- Richard GellerNorwich$86K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.