Trauma Surgery in Connecticut
12 providers, $58,090 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 trauma surgery clinicians in Connecticut
Across 11 trauma surgery clinicians in Connecticut who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $567,381 in total — an average of $51,580 each, of which $51,580 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
- 1Michael NicoaraDanbury$9,961
- 2Patrick ZimmermanDanbury$9,370
- 3Stephanie Eosten JoyceNew London$8,615
- 4James BabowiceWethersfield$7,798
- 5Krishan PatelDanbury$7,360
- 6Jane KeatingHartford$7,112
- 7Jill WatrasNorwalk$3,839
- 8Lucy RuangvoravatNew Haven$3,584
- 9Leah AakjarNorwich$233
- 10Greta PiperNew Haven$78
- 11Bishwajit BhattacharyaNew Haven$75
- 12Matthew CarlsonBridgeport$64