Has Jacob Modest, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,704 in general payments to Jacob Modest, MD across 81 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 Jacob Modest, 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 Jacob Modest, 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.

Jacob Modest, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Danbury, CTNPI 1518458371

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $33,333 of the $42,704 with a category attached, or 78.1%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 49.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $28,755 and has fallen 62.6% since, to $10,762 in 2025.

$42,704in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $527.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$21K
Smith+Nephew$15K
Stryker$4K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$243
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$123
plus $122 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Grants$33,33378%
Travel & lodging$4,61511%
Food & beverage$4,40110%
Education$3541%

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
Arthrex	12	$21,180
Smith+Nephew	13	$15,225
Stryker	29	$3,579
Zimmer Biomet	21	$2,232
Polaris Technology Solutions LLC	2	$243
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.	1	$123
Vericel Corporation	3	$122

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.

Double Endobutton$1,418
Affixus$1,372
Healicoil$1,044
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$863
CAP-FIX$848
Coblation$848
The Pink Hip Kit - Smith & Nephew Table$848
SALVATION$803
VARIAX$319
NA$316
NCB$286
MAKO$173
AXSOS$149
T2 ALPHA$123
T2$115
XtraFix$106
CINCHLOCK$104
ALPHAVENT$104
ICONIX$104

How this compares

$42,704 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

$16,923

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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James PaceFarmington$721K
Isaac MossFarmington$676K
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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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