Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Kenneth Backman

Allergy & Immunology Fairfield, CT Medical Doctor

NPI 1174595847 CMS profile 280394

55 Walls Dr, Ste. 405, Fairfield, CT 06824

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General payments

$11,856

268 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Kenneth Backman of Fairfield, CT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,856 across 268 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 75th percentile of Allergy & Immunology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $5,262 13
2024 General $762 3
2022 General $949 47
2021 General $1,072 62
2020 General $2,627 74
2019 General $1,185 69

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Kenneth Backman
  • Allergy & Immunology median
  • Middle half of Allergy & Immunology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Kenneth Backman were reported at $5,262. Among 2,466 Allergy & Immunology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,140 and the middle half received between $272 and $2,892.

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Year Kenneth Backman Allergy & Immunology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,185 $594 $163–$1,512 $163
2020 $2,627 $426 $106–$1,233 $114
2021 $1,072 $638 $157–$1,708 $132
2022 $949 $790 $205–$1,961 $149
2023 $0 $852 $220–$2,147 $160
2024 $762 $865 $203–$2,267 $164
2025 $5,262 $1,140 $272–$2,892 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $6,419 48 payments
  2. kaleo, Inc. $1,404 10 payments
  3. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $1,315 73 payments
  4. Genentech USA, Inc. $411 24 payments
  5. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $365 19 payments
  6. Genzyme Corporation $256 13 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $214 13 payments
  8. OptiNose US, Inc. $214 12 payments
  9. CSL Behring $213 10 payments
  10. ALK-Abello, Inc $191 9 payments
  11. Other $853 37 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $6,775 8 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $5,036 258 payments
  3. Education $46 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AIRSUPRA $5,757 8 payments
  2. AUVI-Q $1,404 10 payments
  3. SPIRIVA RESPIMAT $591 31 payments
  4. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $579 29 payments
  5. DUPIXENT $566 29 payments
  6. Xolair $411 24 payments
  7. NUCALA Respiratory $341 21 payments
  8. NUCALA Immunology $319 19 payments
  9. Xhance $214 12 payments
  10. SYMBICORT $201 13 payments
  11. Other $2,633 132 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

272

Median for Allergy/ Immunology: 449

Drug cost

$159,493

Median for Allergy/ Immunology: $169,700

Branded share of claims

48.9%

Median for Allergy/ Immunology: 37.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Dupixent Pen Dupilumab Brand 14 $52,388
Tezspire Tezepelumab-Ekko Brand 11 $45,542
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 16 $22,714
Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol Brand 31 $13,529
Breztri Aerosphere Budesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol Brand 13 $8,372
Symbicort Budesonide/Formoterol Fumarate Brand 11 $5,186
Epinephrine Generic 29 $4,605
Mometasone Furoate Generic 33 $3,665
Azelastine-Fluticasone Azelastine/Fluticasone Brand 18 $1,927
Montelukast Sodium Generic 47 $654

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 3,579 Part D prescribers listed as Allergy/ Immunology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$50,436

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

137

Average age 75

Services billed

5,176

91 women, 46 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 67%
Arthritis 44%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Osteoporosis 23%
Cancer 20%
Diabetes 17%
COPD 15%
Depression 15%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
AIRSUPRA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $762
$762 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

268 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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