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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $385,195 in general payments to Michael Kaplan, MD across 81 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 Kaplan, 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 Kaplan, 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 Kaplan, MD

Sports Medicine · Middlebury, CTNPI 1124047196

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $371,279 of the $385,195 with a category attached, or 96.4%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $108,802 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $48 in 2024. Among sports medicine 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.

$385,195in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $4755.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$372K
EMD Serono, Inc.$8K
Celularity Inc.$2K
Smith+Nephew$2K
KCI USA, Inc.$493
Amgen$137
plus $315 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$371,27996%
Consulting fees$2,2001%
Speaking & faculty fees$6,9002%
Travel & lodging$2,8691%
Food & beverage$1,9471%

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
Encore Medical, LP	21	$372,281
EMD Serono, Inc.	11	$8,345
Celularity Inc.	2	$1,855
Smith+Nephew	24	$1,768
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$493
Amgen	9	$137
Ossio Inc	1	$88
Johnson & Johnson	3	$62
Bioventus LLC	2	$43
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$42
Stryker	1	$27
Vericel Corporation	1	$21
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Conformis, Inc.	1	$14

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

$385,195 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 65 sports medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$152,800

Medicare patients

349

Services billed

6,778

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
Celecoxib	17	$1,075
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	36	$274
Oxycodone Hcl	17	$160
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	26	$124
Amoxicillin	60	$102
Tramadol Hcl	11	$46
Meloxicam	14	$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Middlebury

Augustus MazzoccaFarmington$1M
Robert ArcieroFarmington$269K
Karen SuttonStamford$245K
Michael KuhnMiddletown$201K
Katherine CoynerFarmington$186K
Joshua FrankNorwalk$78K
Michael JoyceGlastonbury$73K
Andrew JimenezNew Haven$66K
Jordan GruskayBranford$47K
Darryl WhitneyShelton$44K

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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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