Has John Grady-Benson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,045 in general payments to John Grady-Benson, MD across 15 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 Grady-Benson, 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 Grady-Benson, 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 Grady-Benson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Hartford, CTNPI 1851398614

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,045in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $69.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$426
Davol Inc.$159
Zimmer Biomet$155
Acumed LLC$145
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$125
Amgen$19
plus $16 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,045100%

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	8	$426
Davol Inc.	1	$159
Zimmer Biomet	2	$155
Acumed LLC	1	$145
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$125
Amgen	1	$19
Smith+Nephew	1	$16

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

$1,045 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$174,436

Medicare patients

284

Services billed

1,416

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
Methocarbamol	112	$1,129
Amoxicillin	265	$502
Oxycodone Hcl	56	$294
Meloxicam	121	$285
Tizanidine Hcl	15	$245
Clindamycin Hcl	47	$203
Tramadol Hcl	43	$161
Pantoprazole Sodium	39	$131
Hydromorphone Hcl	15	$90
Gabapentin	11	$82

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Hartford

Hanbing ZhouHartford$198K
Heeren MakanjiHartford$188K
Matthew GrossoHartford$63K
Michael MirandaHartford$44K
Amanda FantryHartford$22K
Peter WhangNew Haven$2M
James YueShelton$1.8M
Paul SethiGreenwich$1.6M
Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
Isaac MossFarmington$783K

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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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