Vanessa Damm, PA
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,286 of the $5,965 with a category attached, or 71.9%. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,614 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $630 in 2025. Among surgical clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 89 payments — averaging $67.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Polaris Technology Solutions LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Stryker$550
- Bioventus LLC$387
- Vericel Corporation$246
- plus $706 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,67928%
- Food & beverage$4,28672%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 10 | $1,421 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 26 | $1,369 |
| Arthrex | 18 | $1,287 |
| Stryker | 7 | $550 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $387 |
| Vericel Corporation | 5 | $246 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $117 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $117 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| GSK | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$649
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$467
- VAPR$257
- PANGEA$150
- DYNATAPE$141
- Durolane$135
- MAKO$126
- XARELTO$124
- TRIATHLON$124
- Gryphon Orthocord$118
- ORTHOCORD$118
- AccuFill$117
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$117
- iFuse Implant$116
- MONOVISC$114
- PEAK$114
- ORTHOVISC$114
- RIGIDLOOP$111
- FMS$111
- MACI$108
How this compares
$5,965 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 568 surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 16 | $279 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $231 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $88 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Derby
- Jennifer PleimannDerby$3K
- Erin Myers AlbaridiNorwalk$70K
- Christopher MascioStamford$44K
- Scott CallahanMonroe$31K
- Monika Hoang-SkawinskaMiddletown$17K
- Danielle MundayNorwalk$13K
- Megan StrongBridgeport$11K
- Ryan ArtigliereNew Haven$10K
- Arya BiswasNorwich$10K
- Nicole ChevalierHartford$10K
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.