Joseph Santoro, MD
Neuroradiology · Danbury, CTNPI 1952419095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $590 of the $863 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Sirtex Medical Inc accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 16 payments — averaging $53.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sirtex Medical Inc$548
- GSK$133
- Penumbra, Inc.$77
- Abbott$30
- Bristol Myers Squibb$22
- Exelixis Inc.$20
- plus $33 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$27432%
- Food & beverage$59068%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 2 | $548 |
| GSK | 8 | $133 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Abbott | 1 | $30 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $22 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 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
Too few neuroradiology providers in Connecticutto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other neuroradiology in Danbury
- Pradeep VarmaWest Haven$38K
- Neal MandellTorrington$6K
- Jonathan MogenHartford$4K
- Michele JohnsonNew Haven$2K
- Anthony Abou KaramNew Haven$2K
- Claudia KirschNew Haven$2K
- Martin OllenschlegerHartford$2K
- Todd MillerStamford$825
- Diego NunezNew Haven$125
- Ethan FoxmanHartford$112
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.