Christopher Hartnick
Pediatric Otolaryngology · Boston, MANPI 1972593242
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,460 of the $25,758 with a category attached, or 83.3%. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,605 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $1,789 in 2025.
Across 19 payments — averaging $1355.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$17K
- Pavmed Inc.$7K
- KARL Storz Endovision, Inc.$1K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$725
Across 13 payments — averaging $47,536 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$618K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,46083%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,20012%
- Travel & lodging$5832%
- Food & beverage$5152%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 15 | $17,123 |
| Pavmed Inc. | 2 | $6,750 |
| KARL Storz Endovision, Inc. | 1 | $1,160 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $725 |
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.
- Inspire$13,157
- Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$3,915
- C-MAC$1,160
- HOPKINS$725
How this compares
Too few pediatric otolaryngology providers in Massachusettsto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric otolaryngology in Boston
- Jennifer BrooksBoston$50K
- Alexander MarstonBoston$2K
- Michael CohenBoston$2K
- Claire LawlorBoston$203
- Gi Soo LeeBoston$160
- Jacob BrodskyBoston$143
- Stephen KieranBoston$60
- Andrew ScottBoston$31
- Ross O'SheaBoston$28
- Jakob PugiBoston$28
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.