Seth Blattman, MD
Vascular Surgery · Fairfield, CTNPI 1477508778
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,980 of the $5,613 with a category attached, or 88.7%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $7,252.
Across 172 payments — averaging $32.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$884
- Medtronic$863
- Endologix LLC$542
- Johnson & Johnson$277
- Reflow Medical Inc$200
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$63311%
- Food & beverage$4,98089%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 10 | $1,103 |
| Boston Scientific | 30 | $884 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $863 |
| Endologix LLC | 12 | $542 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $277 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 2 | $200 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $191 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $165 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $150 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $142 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $123 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $108 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $100 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $96 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $68 |
| Abbott | 3 | $66 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $50 |
| Stryker | 1 | $41 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 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.
How this compares
$5,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 82 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 100 | $81,837 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 22 | $26,765 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 44 | $22,797 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 168 | $1,452 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $419 |
| Cephalexin | 11 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $191 | $81,837100 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $277 | $26,76522 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $68 | $22,79744 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 82 vascular surgery providers in Connecticut.
Other vascular surgery in Fairfield
- Andrew BaxterFairfield$11K
- Brian KingFairfield$3K
- Uwe FischerNew London$941K
- Paul GagneDarien$766K
- Naiem NassiriNew Haven$348K
- Lee GoldsteinStratford$272K
- Mohiuddin CheemaHartford$228K
- Bauer SumpioNew Haven$205K
- Javairiah FatimaDanbury$152K
- Bart MuhsOld Saybrook$66K
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.