Kristin Aponte, PA
Surgical · Danbury, CTNPI 1073097283
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,800 of the $5,999 with a category attached, or 80.0%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,700 and has fallen 58.7% since, to $703 in 2025. Among surgical 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 153 payments — averaging $39.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$831
- Stryker$626
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$475
- Si-bone, Inc.$415
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,19920%
- Food & beverage$4,80080%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 21 | $1,284 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 61 | $1,225 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $831 |
| Stryker | 10 | $626 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $475 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 11 | $415 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $214 |
| 4web, Inc. | 2 | $183 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $180 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $80 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $63 |
| Vertex | 2 | $56 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Spinal-Stim$945
- Intracept$815
- INDEPENDENCE$586
- CORBEL$265
- T2 ALPHA$175
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$154
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$154
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$154
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$148
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$143
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$139
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$130
- N/A$125
- Zynrelef$125
- iFuse Implant$116
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$113
How this compares
$5,999 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 568 surgical 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $258 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $234 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 38 | $181 |
| Prednisone | 15 | $99 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $95 |
| Diazepam | 29 | $91 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $84 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Danbury
- Samuel SilvaDanbury$3K
- G Marie DarrowDanbury$3K
- Erin Myers AlbaridiNorwalk$70K
- Christopher MascioStamford$44K
- Scott CallahanMonroe$31K
- Monika Hoang-SkawinskaMiddletown$17K
- Danielle MundayNorwalk$13K
- Megan StrongBridgeport$11K
- Ryan ArtigliereNew Haven$10K
- Arya BiswasNorwich$10K
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.