Cyrus Yazdi, MD
Pain Medicine · Brookline, MANPI 1316189269
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.3% of the total across 113 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,331 and has fallen 57.9% since, to $981 in 2025.
Across 113 payments — averaging $79.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$6K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$818
- Medtronic$560
- Nevro Corp.$331
- Abbott$272
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$246
- plus $603 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7829%
- Food & beverage$8,15791%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 84 | $6,109 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 6 | $818 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $560 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $331 |
| Abbott | 2 | $272 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $246 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $242 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $163 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $109 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $89 |
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.
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$2,036
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,024
- mild Device Kit$765
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$666
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$372
- PROCLAIM$173
- INTELLIS$161
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$155
- SPRINT PNS System$149
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$136
- SYNCHROMED$125
- PAINTEQ$122
- Omnia$120
- Vanta$118
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$109
How this compares
$8,939 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 137 pain 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 89 | $1,150 |
| Baclofen | 41 | $543 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 59 | $273 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $216 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $182 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $119 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $107 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Brookline
- Simon FaynzilbergBrookline$9K
- Vijay RajBrookline$4K
- Hariharan SundramNewton$1.7M
- Thomas SimopoulosBoston$181K
- Ivan UritsWareham$70K
- Antje BarreveldNewton$64K
- Arti OriBoston$62K
- Christine SangBoston$56K
- Ali EbrahimiBurlington$41K
- Alexandra AdlerLowell$35K
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.