Albert Telfeian, MD
Neurological Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1164472916
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Joimax, Inc. accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $67,605 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $1,812 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in RI 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 47 payments — averaging $3144.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Joimax, Inc.$139K
- Synthes GmbH$2K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$2K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Arthrex$982
- plus $590 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$74,34550%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,70815%
- Travel & lodging$49,11333%
- Food & beverage$2,1981%
- Entertainment$4170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Joimax, Inc. | 18 | $139,218 |
| Synthes GmbH | 3 | $2,126 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 2 | $1,820 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 6 | $1,629 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $1,417 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $982 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $247 |
| Abbott | 1 | $164 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
How this compares
$147,781 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 37 neurological surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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 neurological surgery in Providence
- Clark ChenProvidence$104K
- Tianyi NiuProvidence$72K
- Radmehr TorabiProvidence$45K
- Theresa WilliamsonProvidence$45K
- Ki-Eun ChangProvidence$40K
- Prakash SampathProvidence$37K
- Adetokunbo OyeleseProvidence$22K
- Raj ThakrarProvidence$21K
- Oluwaseun AkinduroProvidence$9K
- Jonathan NakhlaProvidence$8K
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.