Has Jeffrey Kluger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,971 in general payments to Jeffrey Kluger, MD across 11 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 Jeffrey Kluger, 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 Jeffrey Kluger, 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.

Jeffrey Kluger, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1962420570

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,375 of the $3,971 with a category attached, or 85.0%. Lundbeck LLC accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,390 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $167 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $16,507.

$3,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $361.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Lundbeck LLC$3K
Medtronic$343
Novartis$109
AbbVie$57
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$53
Preventice Services, LLC$34

$59,832in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $11,966 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$60K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$3,37585%
Food & beverage$59615%

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
Lundbeck LLC	1	$3,375
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$343
Novartis	2	$109
AbbVie	1	$57
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$53
Preventice Services, LLC	2	$34

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

$3,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$17,005

Medicare patients

146

Services billed

243

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
Atomoxetine Hcl	14	$1,590
Midodrine Hcl	23	$1,500

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Hartford

Joseph Dell OrfanoHartford$160K
Steven ZweibelHartford$125K
Neal LippmanHartford$69K
Aneesh TolatHartford$53K
William PeruckiHartford$37K
Ricardo AvendanoHartford$30K
Craig MoskowitzHartford$30K
Meir FriedmanHartford$18K
Eric CrespoHartford$10K
Ellison BernsHartford$2K

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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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