Richard Zell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Haven, CTNPI 1669478178
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $127.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC$5K
- Stryker$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$919
- KCI USA, Inc.$495
- Johnson & Johnson$271
- Smith+Nephew$179
- plus $643 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4254%
- Travel & lodging$7668%
- Food & beverage$3,25934%
- Education$5,18053%
- Gifts$931%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC | 6 | $5,258 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 27 | $1,957 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 4 | $919 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $495 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $271 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $179 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Amgen | 2 | $54 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$766
- PREVENA$425
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIO-FORM$425
- INBONE$345
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$299
- HEALIX$238
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$159
- T2$143
- ORTHOLOC$142
- PROPHECY$132
- GRAFTJACKET$132
- PROSTEP MICA$132
- GRYPHON$114
- DYNACORD$114
- INFINITY$106
How this compares
$9,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $185 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New Haven
- Peter WhangNew Haven$2M
- David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
- Daniel WizniaNew Haven$97K
- Michael LeslieNew Haven$85K
- Lee RubinNew Haven$72K
- John FulkersonNew Haven$67K
- Kristaps KeggiNew Haven$52K
- Arya VarthiNew Haven$47K
- Dominick TuasonNew Haven$40K
- Ilda MolloyNew Haven$37K
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.