Has John Novella received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,167 in general payments to John Novella across 376 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 Novella 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 Novella 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 Novella

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Norwalk, CTNPI 1225270036

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 376 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Biosense Webster, Inc. accounts for 82.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $16,507.

$4,167in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 376 payments — averaging $11.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biosense Webster, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$307
Novartis$177
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$69
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$62
Abbott$45
plus $75 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,167100%

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
Biosense Webster, Inc.	352	$3,432
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$307
Novartis	8	$177
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	1	$69
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$62
Abbott	2	$45
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$33
Amgen	1	$28
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$14

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

$4,167 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$295,921

Medicare patients

671

Services billed

3,222

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
EliquisApixaban	254	$256,345
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	35	$49,313
XareltoRivaroxaban	21	$29,255
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	58	$2,741
Flecainide Acetate	29	$2,285
Amiodarone Hcl	77	$1,227
Metoprolol Succinate	84	$1,162
Atorvastatin Calcium	69	$460
Propafenone Hcl	22	$414
Amlodipine Besylate	69	$358
Furosemide	66	$330
Rosuvastatin Calcium	13	$319
Alprazolam	16	$304
Losartan Potassium	46	$277
Chlorthalidone	14	$236

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Norwalk

Granit VeseliNorwalk$25K
Teresa MenendezNorwalk$2K
Joseph Dell OrfanoHartford$160K
Paras BhattNorwich$139K
Steven ZweibelHartford$125K
Murali ChiravuriFairfield$101K
James FreemanNew Haven$87K
Jude ClancyMiddletown$84K
Joseph TianoTrumbull$70K
Michael PittaroStamford$70K

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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