Alan Garber
Internal Medicine · Cambridge, MANPI 1225124787
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (34.1%), ownership interests and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vertex accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $987,535 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $80,156 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 392 payments — averaging $12,495 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$3.3M
- Exelixis Inc.$1.6M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,668,20534%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,523,91931%
- Travel & lodging$81,4232%
- Food & beverage$20,6980%
- Gifts$3,4070%
- Ownership interest$1,600,42233%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 333 | $3,258,564 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 59 | $1,639,509 |
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.
- Cabometyx$17,500
How this compares
$4,898,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other internal medicine in Cambridge
- Joanna HaasCambridge$268K
- Amy ColsonCambridge$171K
- Madalon MeanyCambridge$123K
- David SchenkeinBoston$5M
- John FallonBoston$1.8M
- Michael MendelsohnBoston$1.6M
- Sandra RichmanBrookline$1.4M
- Gaurav SingalBoston$798K
- Asit ParikhBoston$486K
- Noopur RajeBoston$481K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.