Michael Tao, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Middletown, CTNPI 1528558178
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $48.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$1K
- Pfizer$418
- Boehringer Ingelheim$395
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$218
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$146
- Medtronic$132
- plus $629 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,07131%
- Food & beverage$2,34369%
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 | 12 | $1,475 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $418 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $395 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 5 | $218 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $146 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $132 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 4 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $124 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $81 |
| Amgen | 2 | $40 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Novartis | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
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.
- SCOPIS ENT$869
- JARDIANCE$372
- CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$279
- KENGREAL$135
- XARELTO$124
How this compares
$3,413 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 415 cardiovascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ezetimibe | 13 | $630 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 46 | $445 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 29 | $312 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $139 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $112 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Middletown
- Harlan KrumholzNew Haven$4M
- Jeffery TestaniNew Haven$3.4M
- Nihar DesaiNew Haven$3.2M
- Stuart ZarichBridgeport$1.3M
- John ForrestNew Haven$1.2M
- Hyung ChunNew Haven$1.1M
- Rohan KheraNew Haven$930K
- Brett NowlanBloomfield$798K
- Carlos Mena-HurtadoNew Haven$665K
- Raymond McKayHartford$636K
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.