Pain Medicine in Connecticut
69 providers, $805,213 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,061.
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 pain medicine clinicians in Connecticut
Across 58 pain medicine clinicians in Connecticut who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $7,305,607 in total — an average of $125,959 each, of which $119,463 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
- 1Sandeep JoharWaterbury$328,924
- 2David GutierrezNew Haven$151,334
- 3Brian GrosbergWest Hartford$98,550
- 4Ofer WellischStamford$17,863
- 5Yili HuangNew Haven$17,670
- 6Jared RosenbergGreenwich$12,454
- 7Sandhya MehlaWest Hartford$11,908
- 8Hans KnoppMiddlebury$10,975
- 9Daniel HaddadNew Haven$10,000
- 10Rahul AnandFairfield$9,287
- 11Anthony KaramWestport$8,499
- 12Katherine PodrazaMystic$8,273
- 13Aakash BhargavaNorwich$7,878
- 14Richard ZhuHartford$7,420
- 15Julie HuangDarien$7,109
- 16Jacob LurieFairfield$7,070
- 17Tamer GhalyFarmington$6,832
- 18Yuting XiongStamford$5,536
- 19Robert ChowNew Haven$5,397
- 20David LeviNewtown$4,845
- 21Shayla MenaNewtown$4,632
- 22Bassem AbrahamTrumbull$4,610
- 23Ojas MainkarNew Britain$4,422
- 24Clarisse Melinda San JuanNew Haven$3,541
- 25Timothy MurphyMiddletown$3,399
- 26Rachel ColmanCheshire$3,164
- 27Bohdan WarychaMiddlebury$2,832
- 28Igor TurokWallingford$2,724
- 29Martand ChhibberFarmington$2,695
- 30Seddon SavageNew Canaan$2,500
- 31Andrew IlligStamford$2,421
- 32Gendai EchezonaNorwalk$2,284
- 33Rakesh PatelHamden$2,271
- 34Bhavesh PatelMiddlebury$2,253
- 35Jesse HochkeppelDanbury$2,061
- 36Alexander CarreseMiddlebury$2,007
- 37Daniel ChangHartford$1,891
- 38Zhaodi GongWestport$1,847
- 39Isaac CohenTrumbull$1,502
- 40John PaggioliNorwich$1,317
- 41Si ZhangStamford$1,239
- 42Michael SaffirFairfield$1,174
- 43Kanishka RajputNew Haven$1,121
- 44Caroline VarlottaNorwalk$1,099
- 45Mahd NishtarBridgeport$983
- 46Harsh ShahFarmington$961
- 47Cristina TamasdanBridgeport$938
- 48Ruchi SharmaNew Haven$890
- 49Kamal AjamHartford$759
- 50Lloyd SaberskiNew Haven$700
- 51Jeffrey BegleiterNew Britain$671
- 52Donna Ann ThomasNew Haven$524
- 53Christian WhitneyGreenwich$289
- 54Daniel SouthernNorwalk$221
- 55Paul SygallGreenwich$204
- 56Colin Beals-ReidNew Haven$193
- 57Pietro MemmoHartford$168
- 58Michael SmithNorwalk$158
- 59Joseph HungStamford$141
- 60Steven BennettGreenwich$116