Has Cristina Cusin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,123 in general payments to Cristina Cusin, MD across 34 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Cristina Cusin, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Cristina Cusin, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Cristina Cusin, MD

Psychiatry · Boston, MANPI 1003942426

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Livanova USA, Inc. at 47.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,276 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $2,574 in 2025. Among psychiatry 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.

$17,123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $503.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Livanova USA, Inc.$8K
Johnson & Johnson$6K
Boehringer Ingelheim$3K
Abbott$336
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$74
Biogen$49

$312,834in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $1690.99 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.

Livanova USA, Inc.$292K
Janssen Research & Development, LLC$21K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,27542%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,20030%
Travel & lodging$3,62721%
Food & beverage$1,0226%

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
Livanova USA, Inc.	14	$8,106
Johnson & Johnson	8	$6,012
Boehringer Ingelheim	6	$2,546
Abbott	3	$336
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	2	$74
Biogen	1	$49

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.

VNS Therapy Symmetry Model 8103 Generator$6,816
SPRAVATO$5,901
VNS Therapy$963
INFINITY$327

How this compares

$17,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,431 psychiatry providers in Massachusetts.

See all psychiatry providers in Massachusetts →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,689

Medicare patients

Services billed

190

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
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate	13	$108,736
TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide	26	$24,965
Effexor XrVenlafaxine Hcl	13	$18,499
Methylphenidate ErMethylphenidate Hcl	30	$1,346
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	25	$1,016
Dextroamphetamine-Amphet ErDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	13	$732
Lamotrigine	21	$574
Clonazepam	52	$573
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	33	$510
Methylphenidate Hcl	29	$464
Duloxetine Hcl	18	$445
Clozapine	21	$375
Bupropion Hcl	19	$309
Mirtazapine	11	$299
Quetiapine Fumarate	19	$221

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Boston

Ximena Sanchez-SamperBoston$258K
George PapakostasBoston$170K
Maurizio FavaBoston$120K
Andrew NierenbergBoston$94K
Lee GoldsteinBoston$90K
Gary SachsBoston$81K
Dan IosifescuBoston$61K
Lee CohenBoston$51K
Michael OstacherBoston$39K
Cristina MontalvoBoston$35K

See the full list for Massachusetts →

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →