Has Avik Som, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $31,308 in general payments to Avik Som, MD across 56 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Avik Som, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Avik Som, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Avik Som, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Seattle, WANPI 1932696382

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,800 of the $31,308 with a category attached, or 82.4%. Boston Scientific accounts for 95.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $19,047 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $421 in 2025.

$31,308in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $559.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$30K
Medtronic$660
Terumo Medical Corporation$153
Sirtex Medical Inc$149
Penumbra, Inc.$142
GE HealthCare$125
plus $228 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,80082%
Travel & lodging$3,08910%
Food & beverage$2,1357%
Education$2841%

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
Boston Scientific	41	$29,851
Medtronic	5	$660
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$153
Sirtex Medical Inc	2	$149
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$142
GE HealthCare	1	$125
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$101
Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc.	1	$85
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$23
Philips North America LLC	1	$20

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

$31,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 110 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$12,591

Medicare patients

Services billed

143

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.

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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.

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