Kristen Carter
Physician Assistant · Stamford, CTNPI 1962818161
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 235 payments — averaging $24.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$241
- Edwards Lifesciences$181
- Pfizer$80
- Boston Scientific$75
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$67
- plus $150 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,830100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 210 | $5,035 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $241 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $181 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $80 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $75 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $67 |
| Abbott | 3 | $52 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $33 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
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
$5,830 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,795 physician assistant providers in Connecticut.
Other physician assistant in Stamford
- Lubna LatifStamford$13K
- Jenna LangelloWaterbury$345K
- Gary SpinnerBridgeport$123K
- Jordan MarcouTrumbull$44K
- Mary ElliottGuilford$43K
- Christopher ThompsonGroton$42K
- Michael LalondeNew Haven$35K
- Kristine LaneMiddletown$30K
- Kathryn MidgleyNew Haven$28K
- Richard MoroPlainfield$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.