RxDoctor Payments Data

Antje Barreveld, MD

Pain Medicine · Newton, MANPI 1073789079

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,000 of the $64,431 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Vertex accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $50,489 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $12,520 in 2025. Among pain 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.

$64,431in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $1431.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$63K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Averitas Pharma Inc.$195
  • Vertos Medical, Inc.$90
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$75
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$34
  • plus $89 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$44,00068%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$16,14025%
  • Travel & lodging$2,8454%
  • Food & beverage$1,4462%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$64,431 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 137 pain medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,829
Medicare patients
291
Services billed
669

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Lidocaine30$1,766
Duloxetine Hcl16$595
Gabapentin41$588
Celecoxib11$305
Baclofen16$145
Pregabalin12$137
Oxycodone Hcl11$117
Meloxicam14$116
Diazepam16$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Newton

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