Alik Farber, MD
Vascular Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1629031893
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3%. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,006 and has fallen 71.7% since, to $849 in 2025.
Across 59 payments — averaging $218.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surmodics, Inc.$3K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$981
- KCI USA, Inc.$800
- Endologix LLC$747
- plus $3K from 9 others
Across 233 payments — averaging $1570.30 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$134K
- Medtronic$100K
- Medline Industries LP$53K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$48K
- Novo Nordisk AS$16K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,34049%
- Travel & lodging$3443%
- Food & beverage$6,19148%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surmodics, Inc. | 4 | $3,000 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $2,000 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 16 | $1,901 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $981 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $800 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $747 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $715 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $690 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $482 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $447 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $431 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $256 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $161 |
| Humacyte Global, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $127 |
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.
- SurVeil$3,000
- VALVULOTOM$1,000
- TRIVEX SYSTEM$1,000
- PREVENA$800
- Indigo System$661
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$654
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$649
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$431
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$395
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$343
- ELUVIA$308
- Product in Development$290
- MiraQ$256
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$217
- Zenith$195
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$176
- Indigo$176
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$176
- Grafts$173
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$170
How this compares
$12,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 142 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Boston
- Thomas OdonnellBoston$845K
- Anahita DuaBoston$186K
- Marc SchermerhornBoston$71K
- Edwin GravereauxBoston$61K
- Christopher KwolekBoston$55K
- Shivani KumarBoston$45K
- Richard CambriaBoston$43K
- Payam SalehiBoston$40K
- Nicholas SwerdlowBoston$33K
- Mohamad HussainBoston$24K
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.