Garrett Whittaker
Family · Torrington, CTNPI 1174149462
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $27.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$402
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$382
- AstraZeneca$267
- Bayer$245
- Exact Sciences$175
- Pfizer$163
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,281100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 14 | $402 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 19 | $382 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $267 |
| Bayer | 9 | $245 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $175 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $163 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $156 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 6 | $148 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Merck | 5 | $127 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 7 | $120 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $110 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Gilead | 1 | $96 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $61 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $36 |
| GSK | 1 | $28 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $18 |
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.
- BREZTRI$248
- VRAYLAR$125
- VOQUEZNA$122
- Cologuard Collection Kit$119
- XTANDI$102
How this compares
$3,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,596 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 19 | $18,447 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 13 | $12,192 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 55 | $6,205 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 160 | $2,685 |
| Dutasteride | 16 | $452 |
| Finasteride | 29 | $383 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 24 | $310 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 16 | $203 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 39 | $170 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $145 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $382 | $18,44719 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $45 | $12,19213 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 1,596 family providers in Connecticut.
Other family in Torrington
- David OhotnickyTorrington$24K
- Lisa HautTorrington$13K
- Brandy StepneyTorrington$10K
- Elisha ChristiansonWaterbury$371K
- Kathryn TierneyNew Britain$140K
- Jennifer SilvaSouth Windsor$91K
- Carli WillardEnfield$74K
- Erin MartinMilford$70K
- Dayna GiordanoNew Haven$65K
- Diana BytyqiDerby$53K
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.