Abhiram Bhashyam, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1497136907
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,729 of the $81,440 with a category attached, or 74.6%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 45.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $45,364, more than ten times the $2,870 reported in 2021. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 110 payments — averaging $740.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$37K
- Trimed, Inc.$25K
- Stryker$16K
- Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Synthes USA Products LLC$450
- plus $889 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,72975%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,7507%
- Travel & lodging$9,98612%
- Food & beverage$3,7055%
- Education$1,2001%
- Entertainment$710%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 19 | $37,122 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 38 | $24,641 |
| Stryker | 30 | $16,082 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 9 | $1,056 |
| Synthes USA Products LLC | 1 | $450 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $260 |
| Axogen | 1 | $173 |
| Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $91 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $46 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- NA$17,100
- Tools - WFS$16,521
- VARIAX$12,557
- GAMMA$10,132
- AXSOS$10,000
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$10,000
- HOFFMANN$10,000
- Tools - AFS$3,069
- PANGEA$2,279
- Tools - WS3$803
- LCP$693
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$671
- PRIME SERIES$300
- DJO SURGICAL$250
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$173
- ALLAY NERVE CAP - SMALL NERVE SET$155
- XIAFLEX$122
How this compares
$81,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 542 orthopaedic surgery providers in Massachusetts.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.3M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.4M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- John KwonBoston$663K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
- Andrew WhiteBoston$438K
- Carl TalmoBoston$315K
- Michael KainBoston$171K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.