Erik Carlson, MD
Hand Surgery · Middlebury, CTNPI 1992971808
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,238 of the $12,838 with a category attached, or 87.5%. Ossio Inc accounts for 87.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,615 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $26 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $313.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ossio Inc$11K
- Smith+Nephew$578
- Linvatec Corporation$210
- Stryker$157
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$149
- Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$143
- plus $364 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,23888%
- Food & beverage$1,60012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ossio Inc | 6 | $11,238 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $578 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $210 |
| Stryker | 4 | $157 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 2 | $143 |
| Amgen | 8 | $115 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $100 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $57 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Axogen | 1 | $15 |
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.
- OSSIOFIBER BONE PIN$1,800
- BioBrace 23mm$210
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$110
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA DISTAL RADIUS$100
How this compares
$12,838 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $210 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $158 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Middlebury
- James AglioMiddlebury$1K
- Michael RedlerTrumbull$763K
- Richard BernsteinHamden$437K
- Lisa LattanzaNew Haven$156K
- Kenneth DonohueNew Haven$41K
- Paul ProtomastroNorwalk$16K
- Mark VitaleGreenwich$13K
- Devon BandaGlastonbury$10K
- Douglas WischTorrington$9K
- Ryan NaujoksMiddletown$8K
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.