John Mullen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Milford, CTNPI 1790710986
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $679 of the $1,075 with a category attached, or 63.1%. Stryker accounts for 65.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $455 and has fallen 82.9% since, to $78 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $2,417.
Across 23 payments — averaging $46.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$708
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$75
- Amgen$57
- Smith+Nephew$49
- Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$43
- Johnson & Johnson$40
- plus $105 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$313%
- Travel & lodging$36634%
- Food & beverage$67963%
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 | 5 | $708 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Amgen | 4 | $57 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $49 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $40 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $37 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 253 | $788 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 89 | $455 |
| Prednisone | 69 | $234 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 32 | $198 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $166 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $145 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $121 |
| Amoxicillin | 54 | $88 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New Milford
- Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
- Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
- James YueShelton$1.3M
- Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
- James PaceFarmington$721K
- Isaac MossFarmington$676K
- David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
- John KeggiMiddlebury$264K
- Lauren GeaneyFarmington$263K
- Robert StantonFairfield$199K
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.