Babak Movahedi, MD
Transplant Surgery · Worcester, MANPI 1841502291
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertex at 46.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,897, 3.3 times the $2,089 reported in 2019. Among transplant surgery 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 19 payments — averaging $590.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$5K
- Cook Incorporated$4K
- Organox Ltd$2K
- Transmedics, Inc.$439
- Cook Medical LLC$177
- Boston Scientific$170
- plus $106 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,91344%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,60032%
- Travel & lodging$1,99018%
- Food & beverage$7166%
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 | 6 | $5,160 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $3,600 |
| Organox Ltd | 5 | $1,567 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $439 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $177 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $170 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $106 |
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.
- Cook Medical Interventional Radiology$2,000
- Cook Medical Liver Access$1,600
- METRA$1,519
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$439
- JOURNAVX$138
- TERLIVAZ$106
How this compares
$11,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 23 transplant 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 transplant surgery in Worcester
- Laurence BelinWorcester$7K
- Randolph SchafferWorcester$5K
- Dheera ReddyWorcester$4K
- Paulo MartinsWorcester$2K
- Luca CicaleseWorcester$264
- Piyush GuptaWorcester$22
- Stefan TulliusBoston$25K
- Tatsuo KawaiBoston$10K
- Shimul ShahBoston$8K
- Martin Dib MarambioBoston$6K
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.