Has Kostantinos Poulikidis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,056 in general payments to Kostantinos Poulikidis, MD across 109 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 Kostantinos Poulikidis, MD 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 Kostantinos Poulikidis, MD 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.

Kostantinos Poulikidis, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Danbury, CTNPI 1689018830

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (43.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,588 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $1,144 in 2025.

$21,056in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 109 payments — averaging $193.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$11K
Noah Medical Corporation$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Johnson & Johnson$856
Ambu Inc.$792
Medtronic$764
plus $4K from 26 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,98024%
Food & beverage$6,85533%
Education$9,22144%

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
Intuitive Surgical	25	$11,484
Noah Medical Corporation	7	$1,949
Boston Scientific	6	$1,367
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	6	$856
Ambu Inc.	5	$792
Medtronic	12	$764
Pulmonx Corporation	5	$740
Davol Inc.	4	$546
AstraZeneca	4	$351
Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited	2	$325
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	2	$317
BD	2	$176
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	6	$173
Activ Surgical, Inc.	1	$137
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$137
Seapearl East, Inc	1	$131
Conmed Corporation	1	$131
Merit Medical Systems Inc	1	$131
Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.	1	$125
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$93
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$59
Atricure, Inc.	1	$37
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$36
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$33
Merck	2	$32
United Therapeutics Corporation	2	$32
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$23
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$19
GSK	1	$17
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	1	$16
Harmony Biosciences LLC	1	$15
Pharmaessentia USA 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

$21,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 70 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$61,396

Medicare patients

155

Services billed

415

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Danbury

Constantine PoulosDanbury$5K
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Mohir HedeshianDanbury$3K
Arshad QuadriW. Hartford$626K
M Clive RobinsonBridgeport$496K
Justin BlasbergNew Haven$468K
Marc PelletierNew Haven$151K
Colleen PietrasNew Haven$68K
Michael EbrightStamford$67K
Prashanth VallabhajosyulaNew Haven$36K

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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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