Heeren Makanji, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hartford, CTNPI 1083052633
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,620 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $351 in 2025.
Across 217 payments — averaging $46.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$8K
- Zimmer Biomet$548
- Johnson & Johnson$502
- Stryker$375
- Si-bone, Inc.$166
- Medtronic$142
- plus $423 from 6 others
Across 49 payments — averaging $3813.31 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$88K
- Ossdsign USA Incorporated$51K
- Globus Medical$48K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,53045%
- Food & beverage$5,05650%
- Education$5165%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 186 | $7,946 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $548 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $502 |
| Stryker | 4 | $375 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $142 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $77 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
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.
- XLIF$2,819
- Pulse$2,422
- TLIF$1,469
- CREO$1,069
- Spine Product Portfolio$414
- Excelsius - GPS$375
- Modulus$374
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$312
- PROPEL$267
- CREO MIS$245
- Hedron$150
- CAPRI$149
- NONE$126
- CORBEL$124
- INFINITY OCT System$102
- EXPEDIUM$101
- SYNFIX$101
- MOUNTAINEER$101
How this compares
$10,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 273 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 171 | $2,202 |
| Methocarbamol | 169 | $1,494 |
| Pregabalin | 47 | $1,049 |
| Lidocaine | 17 | $956 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 76 | $937 |
| Baclofen | 71 | $778 |
| Celecoxib | 35 | $515 |
| Methylprednisolone | 63 | $383 |
| Ibuprofen | 22 | $376 |
| Meloxicam | 98 | $289 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 66 | $283 |
| Levetiracetam | 14 | $276 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $242 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 14 | $236 |
| Topiramate | 44 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hartford
- Hanbing ZhouHartford$99K
- Matthew GrossoHartford$63K
- Michael MirandaHartford$44K
- Amanda FantryHartford$22K
- Cameron KiaHartford$17K
- Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
- Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
- James YueShelton$1.3M
- Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
- James PaceFarmington$721K
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.