Carlos Alvarado, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1952575672
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $173.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Conformis, Inc.$7K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$308
- Bioventus LLC$143
- Sanofi$33
- plus $68 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,60033%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40022%
- Travel & lodging$1,08810%
- Food & beverage$3,74234%
- Education$911%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Conformis, Inc. | 8 | $6,664 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 23 | $2,622 |
| Stryker | 18 | $1,084 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $308 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $143 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $33 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Hip$4,083
- iTotal Hip Replacement System$2,400
- ROSA$1,109
- MAKO$365
- mymobility Platform$318
- Persona$279
- ROSA-Knee$255
- TRIATHLON$150
- Kincise$144
- Velys$144
- iTotal CR, iTotal PS, iUni, Hip System$104
How this compares
$10,921 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 542 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 136 | $13,198 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $3,313 |
| Celecoxib | 46 | $1,028 |
| Gabapentin | 53 | $548 |
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 14 | $385 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 58 | $333 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $307 |
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $246 |
| Naproxen | 24 | $222 |
| Meloxicam | 115 | $206 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 56 | $204 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.7M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.5M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- Young Min KwonBoston$2.8M
- Lyle MicheliBoston$996K
- Tony TannouryBoston$912K
- John KwonBoston$673K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
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.