Martin Ucanda, MD
Infectious Disease · New London, CTNPI 1679709323
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.0% of the total across 139 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 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,160, 5.9 times the $197 reported in 2019.
Across 139 payments — averaging $27.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$835
- Viiv Healthcare Company$583
- Merck$554
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$509
- Shionogi Inc$218
- AbbVie$188
- plus $923 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,65596%
- Education$1544%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 29 | $835 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 19 | $583 |
| Merck | 18 | $554 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 14 | $509 |
| Shionogi Inc | 14 | $218 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $188 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $161 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 6 | $137 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 1 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $94 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $88 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $50 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $33 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $24 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 28 | $14,685 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 14 | $5,954 |
| Daptomycin | 22 | $5,897 |
| Ampicillin Sodium | 16 | $3,315 |
| Meropenem | 13 | $2,075 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 26 | $922 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 14 | $722 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 11 | $432 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $170 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in New London
- Zane SaulStratford$513K
- Stephen ScholandMeriden$428K
- Onyema OgbuaguNew Haven$412K
- David RubinNorwalk$397K
- Steven SchnittmanWest Haven$363K
- Kalpana GuptaWest Haven$160K
- Frederick AlticeNew Haven$143K
- Paul AnthonyHartford$91K
- Adrian DemidontHamden$90K
- Albert KoNew Haven$43K
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.