Joseph Sohn, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Middletown, CTNPI 1225095425
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (28.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 69.2% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $14,566 and has fallen 75.8% since, to $3,526 in 2025.
Across 119 payments — averaging $495.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$41K
- Stryker$11K
- Innovasis Inc$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Biedermann Motech, Inc.$765
- Precision Spine, Inc.$192
- plus $861 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$10,36818%
- Consulting fees$16,60028%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,20026%
- Travel & lodging$13,44623%
- Food & beverage$3,3146%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 57 | $40,765 |
| Stryker | 22 | $11,405 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $3,338 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $1,601 |
| Biedermann Motech, Inc. | 12 | $765 |
| Precision Spine, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC | 1 | $192 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $73 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Vertex | 1 | $32 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 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.
- CORBEL$20,968
- CREO$8,248
- MARS Lateral ALIF$8,177
- CAYMAN$6,000
- LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$6,000
- CASCADIA$6,000
- MAKO$2,625
- Clavical Fixation (16-186)$2,418
- TRITANIUM$1,280
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,129
- ANCHOR L$928
- ESCALATE$620
- ES2$620
- RAVINE$620
- YUKON$620
- Telix K Interbody System$419
- DAKOTA ALIF SYSTEM$192
- MARS Anterior Retractor$158
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$154
- NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$154
How this compares
$58,927 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 99 | $822 |
| Celecoxib | 41 | $402 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 46 | $376 |
| Ibuprofen | 17 | $217 |
| Meloxicam | 60 | $208 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $126 |
| Methylprednisolone | 13 | $96 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Middletown
- Jeffrey BashMiddletown$840K
- Alfred HicksMiddletown$1K
- Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
- Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
- Shirvinda WijesekeraHamden$168K
- Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
- David BombackDanbury$95K
- Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
- Lane SperoTorrington$68K
- Daniel RubioNew Haven$39K
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.