Has Eric Silverstein, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,080 in general payments to Eric Silverstein, MD across 60 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 Eric Silverstein, 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 Eric Silverstein, 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.

Eric Silverstein, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hartford, CTNPI 1598719320

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,174 of the $14,080 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,409 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $161 in 2025.

$14,080in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $234.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$10K
Urgo Medical North America, LLC$3K
Stryker$580
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$167
Onkos Surgical, Inc.$144
Johnson & Johnson$94
plus $281 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$11,17479%
Travel & lodging$1,0888%
Food & beverage$1,81713%

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	18	$9,995
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	10	$2,819
Stryker	10	$580
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$167
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	2	$144
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	5	$94
Smith+Nephew	3	$71
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$63
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$43
Solventum Corporation	1	$29
ERBE USA Inc	1	$29
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$26
Next Science LLC	2	$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.

OSS-Knees$8,625
VASHE WOUND SOLUTION 250 ML (8.5 FL OZ) FLIP TOP CAP$2,500
FREEDOM WRIST$142
PYRO MCP$142
TSSM - TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM METAL$142
TITAN-SHOULDER$142
External Fixation System$142
TRIATHLON$103

How this compares

$14,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$58,320

Medicare patients

119

Services billed

869

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	58	$1,676
Methocarbamol	17	$175
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$58
Amoxicillin	45	$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
James YueShelton$1.3M
Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
James PaceFarmington$721K

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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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