Stephen Nelson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hamden, CTNPI 1194161604
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $70.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- Smith+Nephew$251
- Johnson & Johnson$198
- Davol Inc.$159
- Zimmer Biomet$144
- plus $640 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50026%
- Travel & lodging$3576%
- Food & beverage$3,95968%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 42 | $2,815 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 4 | $1,609 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $198 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $144 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $123 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Amgen | 5 | $70 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 1 | $62 |
| Vertex | 2 | $55 |
| Lightforce Orthodontics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- MAKO$1,538
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,500
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$1,500
- TRIATHLON$263
- N/A$146
- 660HD-E IMAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM$146
- LENS 4K$146
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$106
How this compares
$5,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tranexamic Acid | 133 | $3,246 |
| Meloxicam | 679 | $1,817 |
| Pregabalin | 87 | $1,572 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 202 | $1,469 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 44 | $1,257 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 103 | $534 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 124 | $383 |
| Methylprednisolone | 57 | $382 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 90 | $349 |
| Cephalexin | 63 | $321 |
| Celecoxib | 19 | $281 |
| Amoxicillin | 221 | $267 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 40 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hamden
- Glenn RussoHamden$41K
- Logan PetitHamden$26K
- Peter WhangNew Haven$2M
- James YueShelton$1.8M
- Paul SethiGreenwich$1.6M
- Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
- Isaac MossFarmington$783K
- James PaceFarmington$721K
- John KeggiMiddlebury$380K
- Sean EsmendeGlastonbury$363K
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.