Care Atlas / Open Payments / Massachusetts Industry payments to physicians · Massachusetts · 2024
Massachusetts
In Massachusetts, drug and device makers reported $69M in general payments to
20,499 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of
$3,353 each — plus $421M tied to research and $12M in ownership interests.
A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants,
consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
20,499
covered recipients paid
Top specialties in Massachusetts General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.
Orthopaedic Surgery $9M $24,128/phys
Internal Medicine $5M $3,386/phys
Dermatology $4M $11,241/phys
Cardiovascular Disease $4M $8,674/phys
Neurology $3M $7,814/phys
Gastroenterology $2M $6,557/phys
Medical Oncology $2M $13,112/phys
Hematology & Oncology $2M $8,092/phys
Unspecified $2M $2,568/phys
Pulmonary Disease $2M $7,478/phys
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $2M $86,861/phys
Emergency Medicine $2M $8,652/phys
Highest-paid physicians in Massachusetts By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.
Paul Tornetta Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $3M
Ethan Lerner Dermatology · Charlestown · top payer: Incyte Corporation $2M
Thomas Thornhill Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M
Jon Warner Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
James Bono Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
Ali Nasseh Endodontics · Boston · top payer: Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC $1M
Sushama Scalera Emergency Medicine · Salem · top payer: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $950,304
David Schenkein Internal Medicine · Boston · top payer: Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $829,812
Peter Orio Radiation Oncology · Boston · top payer: Teleflex LLC $777,627
Dennis Ausiello Nephrology · Boston · top payer: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $698,953
Stephen Murphy Orthopaedic Surgery · Roxbury Crossing · top payer: MicroPort Orthopedics Inc $686,846
Alan Garber Internal Medicine · Cambridge · top payer: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $654,479
John Stone Rheumatology · Boston · top payer: Amgen Inc. $544,627
Sarah Grant Pulmonary Disease · Brookline · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $533,460
Wael Att Prosthodontics · Boston · top payer: Straumann USA LLC $512,169
Christopher Wright Neurology · Boston · top payer: Alkermes, Inc. $486,040
Ramnik Xavier Gastroenterology · Boston · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $440,229
David Scadden Unspecified · Boston · top payer: Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $412,620
Andrew Jawa Hand Surgery · Waltham · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $401,110
Paul Glazer Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chestnut Hill · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $384,394
Pasquale Cancelliere Podiatrist · Somerville · top payer: Convatec Inc. $327,224
Elad Anter Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Boston · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $325,552
Elizabeth Nabel Cardiovascular Disease · Boston · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $317,549
Asit Parikh Internal Medicine · Boston · top payer: Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $301,913
James Thrall Nuclear Radiology · Boston · top payer: Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. $301,051
RECORDED — CMS Open Payments
figures for program year 2024.
DERIVED — state totals,
per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.
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What this is — and is not
A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Massachusetts — not evidence that any
payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice
about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.