Vera Hendrix, MD
Surgical Oncology · New Haven, CTNPI 1225490931
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,137 of the $3,489 with a category attached, or 61.3%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elucent Medical at 43.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,509, 8.4 times the $300 reported in 2019.
Across 38 payments — averaging $91.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elucent Medical$2K
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$672
- Vector Surgical, LLC$322
- AbbVie$232
- Stryker$195
- Endomagnetics Ltd$153
- plus $395 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,35239%
- Food & beverage$2,13761%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elucent Medical | 6 | $1,519 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $672 |
| Vector Surgical, LLC | 2 | $322 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $232 |
| Stryker | 5 | $195 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $153 |
| Merck | 4 | $124 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $92 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $27 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Veracyte, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- HemoBlast Bellows$588
- Magseed$153
- Magtrace$153
- STRATTICE$115
How this compares
$3,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 30 surgical oncology 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.
Other surgical oncology in New Haven
- Isaac KimNew Haven$35K
- Kevin BillingsleyNew Haven$6K
- John KunstmanNew Haven$2K
- Tristen ParkNew Haven$145
- Gregory ZanieskiNew Haven$27
- Jonathan LewisWestport$115K
- Bret SchipperHartford$15K
- Helen PassStamford$11K
- James FlahertyNew Britain$10K
- Csaba GajdosStamford$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.