Has Shannon Small, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,054 in general payments to Shannon Small, MD across 40 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 Shannon Small, 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 Shannon Small, 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.

Shannon Small, MD

Surgical Critical Care · New London, CTNPI 1932360161

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $8,500 of the $12,054 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $10,488 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $122 in 2025.

$12,054in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $301.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$10K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Lifenet Health$124
Dilon Technologies, Inc.$122
AstraZeneca$88
Johnson & Johnson$22
plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,33619%
Food & beverage$1,21810%
Education$8,50071%

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
Intuitive Surgical	28	$10,400
Zimmer Biomet	7	$1,283
Lifenet Health	1	$124
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$122
AstraZeneca	1	$88
Johnson & Johnson	1	$22
Osiris Therapeutics 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

$12,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 30 surgical critical care providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,073

Medicare patients

129

Services billed

209

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.

Other surgical critical care in New London

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William SymonsStamford$17K
Noubar KevorkianNew Britain$16K
Melanie SionNew Haven$9K
Heath WaldenDanbury$7K
Gregory EckenrodeNorwalk$4K
Carina BiggsWaterbury$4K
Inam ShaikhDanbury$3K

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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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