Brian Freniere, MD
Plastic Surgery · Burlington, MANPI 1508209768
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $10,000 of the $11,231 with a category attached, or 89.0%. Acumed LLC accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,126 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $148 in 2025.
Across 14 payments — averaging $802.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$10K
- Axogen$281
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$253
- Smith+Nephew$156
- Biocomposites Inc$148
- Kerecis Limited$137
- plus $257 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00089%
- Food & beverage$1,16910%
- Education$621%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $10,000 |
| Axogen | 2 | $281 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $253 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $156 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $148 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $137 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $126 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $68 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $62 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$547
- INTEGRA$406
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$281
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$281
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$281
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$157
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$157
- PICO$156
- RENASYS GO v2 HOME$156
- RENASYS TOUCH$156
- Stimulan$148
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$137
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$135
- PRIMATRIX$135
How this compares
$11,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 113 plastic 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 13 | $147 |
| Cefadroxil | 11 | $76 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Burlington
- Sonal PandyaBurlington$3K
- Justin FernandesBurlington$2K
- Lloyd JonesBurlington$1K
- Brittany CarusoBurlington$956
- Christine DiedwardoBurlington$889
- William AustenBoston$150K
- Daniel DelvecchioBoston$141K
- Edward KobraeiBoston$78K
- Samuel LinBoston$72K
- Michael TantilloChestnut Hill$71K
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.