Has Meir Friedman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,938 in general payments to Meir Friedman, MD across 309 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 Meir Friedman, 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 Meir Friedman, 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.

Meir Friedman, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1194851295

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.4% of the total across 309 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$17,938in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 309 payments — averaging $58.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$17K
Abbott$258
Biosense Webster, Inc.$238
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$171
Boston Scientific$170
Pfizer$77
plus $152 from 5 others

$69,550in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $8693.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$70K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,1767%
Food & beverage$16,76293%

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(2 entities)	280	$16,871
Abbott	4	$258
Biosense Webster, Inc.	6	$238
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	8	$171
Boston Scientific	1	$170
Pfizer	4	$77
Preventice Services, LLC	1	$43
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$37
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$34
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$25
Lundbeck LLC	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.

How this compares

$17,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$94,256

Medicare patients

478

Services billed

1,140

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 clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Hartford

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Neal LippmanHartford$69K
Aneesh TolatHartford$53K
William PeruckiHartford$37K
Ricardo AvendanoHartford$30K
Craig MoskowitzHartford$30K
Eric CrespoHartford$10K
Jeffrey KlugerHartford$4K
Ellison BernsHartford$2K

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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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