Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Connecticut
15 providers, $7,502 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Connecticut
Across 11 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Connecticut who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $552,085 in total — an average of $50,190 each, of which $50,190 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Andrew PutnamNew Haven$4,410
- 2Joseph SaccoBranford$1,999
- 3Sunaina DiasNorwalk$244
- 4Joseph AlessandroNorwich$180
- 5Alexander MbeweNew Haven$154
- 6Samantha ShapiroHartford$140
- 7Russ GranichHartford$120
- 8Brett PrestiaBranford$119
- 9Brian HoneymanStonington$39
- 10Ross AlbertHartford$35
- 11Michael GabrielHartford$20
- 12Shannon Michel WynnDanbury$15
- 13Nasreen MalikTrumbull$13
- 14Erica GoldsteinTrumbull$13
- 15Mary BussFarmington$0