Has Michael Held, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,259 in general payments to Michael Held, MD across 69 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 Michael Held, 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 Michael Held, 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.

Michael Held, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenwich, CTNPI 1306340229

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,259in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $250.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$10K
Zimmer Biomet$3K
Stryker$3K
Sioux Surgical Inc$721
Johnson & Johnson$341
Axogen$150
plus $266 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Grants$3,12518%
Travel & lodging$5,29631%
Food & beverage$5,38431%
Education$3,45420%

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
Smith+Nephew	24	$9,918
Zimmer Biomet	9	$3,339
Stryker	20	$2,524
Sioux Surgical Inc	7	$721
Johnson & Johnson	3	$341
Axogen	1	$150
Orthalign Inc	1	$101
Medtronic	1	$63
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$54
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$48

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

$17,259 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$115,025

Medicare patients

285

Services billed

2,625

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
Meloxicam	75	$188

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Greenwich

Paul SethiGreenwich$1.6M
Peter WhangNew Haven$2M
James YueShelton$1.8M
Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
Isaac MossFarmington$783K
James PaceFarmington$721K
John KeggiMiddlebury$380K
Sean EsmendeGlastonbury$363K
Jim HsuStamford$358K
David FrumbergNew Haven$288K

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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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