Shirvinda Wijesekera, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Hamden, CTNPI 1073519583
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $141,085 of the $167,627 with a category attached, or 84.2%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 468 payments — averaging $358.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$124K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$18K
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$9K
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
- 4web, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 12 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $4573.40 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Expanding Innovations, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$141,08584%
- Travel & lodging$14,6749%
- Food & beverage$11,8687%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 89 | $123,546 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 17 | $17,747 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 5 | $9,146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 268 | $6,516 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 7 | $5,877 |
| 4web, Inc. | 8 | $1,677 |
| Stryker | 10 | $738 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $511 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 7 | $470 |
| Amgen | 41 | $280 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $259 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $244 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $219 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Vertex | 2 | $58 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$64,151
- ViviGen$33,838
- VIPER$29,249
- X-PAC$9,146
- Other - Miscellaneous$5,877
- CONDUIT$2,340
- Teligen$2,133
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$1,505
- Velys$1,014
- FIBERGRAFT Aeridyan Matrix$287
- EXPEDIUM$265
- Magellan$259
- Trinity ELITE$219
- INVICTUS OPEN$173
- aprevo$155
- TRITANIUM$148
- icotec BlackArmor Spine System$141
- CD HORIZON$115
- MESA RAIL$114
- Excelsius - GPS$108
How this compares
$167,627 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 25 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 270 | $3,947 |
| Methylprednisolone | 79 | $559 |
| Nabumetone | 49 | $497 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 43 | $448 |
| Celecoxib | 18 | $428 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 101 | $342 |
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $252 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $187 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Pot ErAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 16 | $181 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $157 |
| Meloxicam | 48 | $134 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $66 |
| Diazepam | 21 | $37 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Hamden
- John BeinerHamden$7K
- Gerard GirasoleTrumbull$2.1M
- Jeffrey BashMiddletown$840K
- Steven McAnanyStamford$172K
- Alex GitelmanStamford$158K
- David BombackDanbury$95K
- Robert StocktonWallingford$71K
- Lane SperoTorrington$68K
- Joseph SohnMiddletown$59K
- Daniel RubioNew Haven$39K
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.