Has John Beiner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,275 in general payments to John Beiner, MD across 27 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 John Beiner, 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 John Beiner, 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.

John Beiner, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Hamden, CTNPI 1770570921

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,146 of the $7,275 with a category attached, or 84.5%. Expanding Innovations, Inc. accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $9,632.

$7,275in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $269.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Expanding Innovations, Inc.$6K
Globus Medical$553
Johnson & Johnson$235
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$143
Terumo BCT, Inc.$86
Bioventus LLC$15

$6,146in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $3073.20 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Expanding Innovations, Inc.$6K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,14684%
Travel & lodging$3635%
Food & beverage$76511%

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
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	5	$6,243
Globus Medical	8	$553
Johnson & Johnson	6	$235
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	6	$143
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$86
Bioventus LLC	1	$15

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

$7,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$178,380

Medicare patients

260

Services billed

1,074

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	115	$1,238
Methylprednisolone	89	$588
Pregabalin	20	$407
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	23	$188
Oxycodone Hcl	36	$142
Tramadol Hcl	41	$134
Celecoxib	12	$104
Diazepam	24	$42
Meloxicam	11	$9

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Hamden

Shirvinda WijesekeraHamden$168K
Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
Jeffrey BashMiddletown$840K
Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
David BombackDanbury$95K
Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
Lane SperoTorrington$68K
Joseph SohnMiddletown$59K
Daniel RubioNew Haven$39K

See the full list for Connecticut →

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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