Has Gendai Echezona, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,284 in general payments to Gendai Echezona, MD across 41 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 Gendai Echezona, 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 Gendai Echezona, 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.

Gendai Echezona, MD

Pain Medicine · Norwalk, CTNPI 1871737718

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 41 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 41.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $573 and has fallen 67.6% since, to $186 in 2025.

$2,284in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $55.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$958
Medtronic$645
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$210
Merz North America, Inc.$200
GRT US Holding, Inc.$136
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$66
plus $70 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,284100%

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
Boston Scientific	23	$958
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$645
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$210
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$200
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$136
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$66
Abbott	2	$45
Nevro Corp.	1	$25

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

$2,284 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 69 pain medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,387

Medicare patients

Services billed

252

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
Lidocaine	30	$2,104
Gabapentin	92	$1,585
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$549
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$352
Pregabalin	31	$338
Methocarbamol	22	$174
Methylprednisolone	16	$131
Meloxicam	14	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Yili HuangNew Haven$18K
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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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