Tamar Kessel, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Greenwich, CTNPI 1770745622
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. at 43.2% of the total.
Across 19 payments — averaging $77.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$632
- Arthrex$272
- Stratus Medical, LLC$272
- AbbVie$64
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$54
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$52
- plus $119 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$86659%
- Food & beverage$59841%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 2 | $632 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $272 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 2 | $272 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $64 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $54 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Amgen | 1 | $37 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 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.
- Nimbus$272
How this compares
$1,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 107 physical medicine & rehabilitation 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 81 | $1,520 |
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 64 | $1,390 |
| Methylprednisolone | 98 | $811 |
| Meloxicam | 102 | $509 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $328 |
| Gabapentin | 25 | $213 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 19 | $202 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $172 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $78 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Greenwich
- Aleksandr LevchenkoGreenwich$2K
- Jeffrey HeftlerGreenwich$679
- Christopher SahlerGreenwich$137
- Charles OdonkorOld Saybrook$81K
- Bridget WalkerHartford$41K
- Michael BrennanFairfield$19K
- Robert KrugHartford$14K
- Michael WongMilford$12K
- Daniel KlineBranford$10K
- Peter MoleyStamford$5K
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.