Has Lili Schindelar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,774 in general payments to Lili Schindelar, MD across 24 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 Lili Schindelar, 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 Lili Schindelar, 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.

Lili Schindelar, MD

Hand Surgery · Bloomfield, CTNPI 1891220042

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 8 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $745 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $167 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $2,220.

$1,774in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $73.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$381
Endo USA, Inc.$322
Smith+Nephew$317
Bone Support Inc.$274
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$255
Acumed LLC$159
plus $67 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,774100%

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
Stryker	3	$381
Endo USA, Inc.	10	$322
Smith+Nephew	2	$317
Bone Support Inc.	2	$274
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$255
Acumed LLC	2	$159
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$36
Bioventus LLC	1	$32

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

$1,774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$99,983

Medicare patients

251

Services billed

1,556

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
Methylprednisolone	32	$238
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$85
Meloxicam	21	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Bloomfield

Michael RedlerTrumbull$763K
Richard BernsteinHamden$437K
Lisa LattanzaNew Haven$156K
Kenneth DonohueNew Haven$41K
Paul ProtomastroNorwalk$16K
Mark VitaleGreenwich$13K
Erik CarlsonMiddlebury$13K
Devon BandaGlastonbury$10K
Douglas WischTorrington$9K
Ryan NaujoksMiddletown$8K

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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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