Has Richard Bernstein, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $436,756 in general payments to Richard Bernstein, MD across 67 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 Richard Bernstein, 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 Richard Bernstein, 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.

Richard Bernstein, MD

Hand Surgery · Hamden, CTNPI 1558367086

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $428,820 of the $436,756 with a category attached, or 98.2%. Linvatec Corporation accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $219,114 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $80,143 in 2025. Among hand surgery 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.

$436,756in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $6518.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Linvatec Corporation$429K
Sonex Health, Inc.$7K
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$526
Vericel Corporation$399
Johnson & Johnson$211
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$148
plus $127 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,2501%
Travel & lodging$1,1050%
Food & beverage$1,5810%
Other$428,82098%

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
Linvatec Corporation	9	$428,820
Sonex Health, Inc.	8	$6,525
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	31	$526
Vericel Corporation	4	$399
Johnson & Johnson	5	$211
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$148
Axogen	2	$39
Medartis Inc.	3	$37
Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.	1	$35
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$16

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

$436,756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 54 hand surgery providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$183,551

Medicare patients

426

Services billed

2,415

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	33	$132
Meloxicam	67	$96
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	30	$80

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in Hamden

Michael RedlerTrumbull$763K
Lisa LattanzaNew Haven$156K
Kenneth DonohueNew Haven$41K
Paul ProtomastroNorwalk$16K
Mark VitaleGreenwich$13K
Erik CarlsonMiddlebury$13K
Devon BandaGlastonbury$10K
Douglas WischTorrington$9K
Ryan NaujoksMiddletown$8K
Erin CravezBranford$8K

See the full list for Connecticut →

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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