Vijay Jayaraman, MD
Surgery · Waterford, CTNPI 1568546786
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (37.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 65.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,908 and has fallen 77.3% since, to $1,797 in 2025.
Across 85 payments — averaging $248.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- Acumed LLC$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$375
- Kerecis Limited$243
- plus $763 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0009%
- Travel & lodging$7,30435%
- Food & beverage$3,80018%
- Education$8,00038%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 41 | $13,905 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $2,995 |
| Acumed LLC | 12 | $1,720 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,104 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $375 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $243 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 3 | $177 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $169 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $122 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Merck | 3 | $45 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,800
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- RibLoc$1,297
- RibFix Blu$998
- PHASIX$982
- BioBridge$734
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$582
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$194
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$194
- PREVENA$169
- V.A.C. ULTA$169
- OsteoMed$149
- VISTASEAL$136
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$136
- STRATAFIX$136
- EVARREST$136
- TRUMATCH$127
- Kcentra$123
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$122
- MATRIXRIB$112
How this compares
$21,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 289 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $118 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $85 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Waterford
- John MortonNew Haven$970K
- Joseph AferzonPortland$712K
- Andrew DuffyNew Haven$256K
- Sherard ChiuFairfield$148K
- Nikhilesh SekharFairfield$140K
- Anees ChagparNew Haven$121K
- Roselle CrombieFairfield$113K
- Craig FlochNorwalk$88K
- Mark FariesNew Haven$84K
- Zhongqiu ZhangMiddlebury$83K
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.