Karen Sutton, MD
Sports Medicine · Stamford, CTNPI 1497937007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $216,065 of the $245,115 with a category attached, or 88.1%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 83.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $54,674 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $1,644 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 203 payments — averaging $1207.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$204K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$31K
- Synthes GmbH$3K
- Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$2K
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- plus $3K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$216,06588%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5001%
- Travel & lodging$21,2319%
- Food & beverage$4,6482%
- Education$1,6711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 125 | $203,662 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 11 | $31,112 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $2,605 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 12 | $1,678 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $1,671 |
| Arthrex | 26 | $1,601 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $1,182 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Stryker | 4 | $389 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $64 |
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.
- MILAGRO$130,950
- COR$129,946
- BIOINTRAFIX$126,908
- RAPIDLOC PDS PANACRYL$124,883
- RIGIDLOOP$93,558
- HEALIX$66,349
- GLOBAL$65,045
- VISUALIZATION$65,045
- MONOVISC$3,038
- RAPIDLOC$2,025
- Mitek$1,754
- TRUESPAN$1,185
- DYNACORD$1,115
- BEAR Implant (Bridge-Enhanced ACL Restoration)$1,000
- GRYPHON$723
- VAPR$630
- TWISTR$281
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$145
- MAKO$141
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$136
How this compares
$245,115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 65 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in Stamford
- Alice ChenStamford$473
- Andrew HaasStamford$300
- Craig TiffordStamford$208
- Augustus MazzoccaFarmington$1M
- Michael KaplanMiddlebury$385K
- Robert ArcieroFarmington$269K
- Michael KuhnMiddletown$201K
- Katherine CoynerFarmington$186K
- Joshua FrankNorwalk$78K
- Michael JoyceGlastonbury$73K
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.