Christopher Kabrhel, MD
Emergency Medicine · Boston, MANPI 1164404596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $42,215 of the $53,713 with a category attached, or 78.6%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. at 33.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $18,195 and has fallen 79.4% since, to $3,756 in 2025. Among emergency medicine 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 34 payments — averaging $1579.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$18K
- Pfizer$9K
- EKOS Corporation$8K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K
- CSL Behring$4K
- plus $3K from 3 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $125,197 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.
- Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc.$452K
- Diagnostica Stago, Inc$299K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,21579%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,25012%
- Travel & lodging$4,4748%
- Food & beverage$7751%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 5 | $18,195 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $8,696 |
| EKOS Corporation | 4 | $7,984 |
| Boston Scientific | 11 | $6,546 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $5,445 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $3,595 |
| Abbott | 2 | $3,000 |
| Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc. | 4 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Automated Blood Coagulation Analyzer CS-2500$17,500
- ELIQUIS$8,696
- EKOSONIC$7,984
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$4,000
- MitraClip$3,000
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$2,264
How this compares
$53,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,429 emergency medicine 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 emergency medicine in Boston
- Christopher GilliganBoston$1M
- Nathan ShapiroBoston$311K
- Joshua GoldsteinBoston$234K
- Adaira LandryBoston$211K
- Elissa PerkinsBoston$205K
- Christopher BaughBoston$146K
- Chanel FischettiBoston$71K
- Jarone LeeBoston$34K
- Scott WeinerBoston$18K
- Adam LandmanBoston$17K
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.