Has Glenn Russo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $40,752 in general payments to Glenn Russo, MD across 173 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 Glenn Russo, 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 Glenn Russo, 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.

Glenn Russo, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hamden, CTNPI 1134488331

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.6%), food and beverage and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Orthofix Medical, Inc. at 28.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $14,229 and has fallen 60.4% since, to $5,642 in 2025.

$40,752in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 173 payments — averaging $235.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$11K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$8K
Stryker$8K
Hyhte Holdings Inc.$5K
4web, Inc.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
plus $4K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$5,16613%
Consulting fees$24,27460%
Travel & lodging$2,1775%
Food & beverage$9,13522%

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
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	9	$11,500
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	6	$8,010
Stryker	49	$7,998
Hyhte Holdings Inc.	1	$5,166
4web, Inc.	2	$2,200
Johnson & Johnson	53	$2,115
Medtronic	11	$2,017
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$571
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$331
Globus Medical	2	$195
Medicrea USA, Corp.	2	$164
Amgen	23	$157
Spine Wave, Inc.	2	$101
GS Solutions, Inc.	1	$87
Nevro Corp.	1	$81
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$30
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$28

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

$40,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$203,935

Medicare patients

283

Services billed

1,009

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	55	$537
Methylprednisolone	70	$468
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	62	$331
Meloxicam	66	$203
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$159
Prednisone	58	$148
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	14	$106
Tramadol Hcl	18	$85
Methocarbamol	15	$85

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Hamden

Logan PetitHamden$26K
Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
James YueShelton$1.3M
Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
James PaceFarmington$721K
Isaac MossFarmington$676K
David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
John KeggiMiddlebury$264K
Lauren GeaneyFarmington$263K

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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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