Has Henry Backe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,882 in general payments to Henry Backe, MD across 86 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 Henry Backe, 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 Henry Backe, 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.

Henry Backe, MD

Hand Surgery · Fairfield, CTNPI 1457396145

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,724 of the $3,882 with a category attached, or 70.2%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 31.4% of the total.

$3,882in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $45.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
Smith+Nephew$1K
Amgen$373
Davol Inc.$324
Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$167
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$149
plus $622 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,15730%
Food & beverage$2,72470%

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
Stryker	6	$1,218
Smith+Nephew	17	$1,028
Amgen	41	$373
Davol Inc.	2	$324
Polaris Technology Solutions LLC	2	$167
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$149
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$148
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$125
Zimmer Biomet	1	$115
Bioventus LLC	4	$61
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$61
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$42
Solventum Corporation	2	$32
Axogen	2	$28
Intellijoint Surgical Inc.	1	$10

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.

MAKO$995
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$165
Evoke$149
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$149
Tandem$144
Journey II$142
Zynrelef$125
Zilretta$123
Tricera Handpiece$115

How this compares

$3,882 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$246,864

Medicare patients

400

Services billed

2,802

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
Methylprednisolone	16	$102
Meloxicam	29	$75
Tramadol Hcl	22	$69
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Fairfield

Ross RicherFairfield$418
Michael RedlerTrumbull$763K
Richard BernsteinHamden$437K
Lisa LattanzaNew Haven$156K
Kenneth DonohueNew Haven$41K
Paul ProtomastroNorwalk$16K
Mark VitaleGreenwich$13K
Erik CarlsonMiddlebury$13K
Devon BandaGlastonbury$10K
Douglas WischTorrington$9K

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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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