Daniel Tobert, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1790123875
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,439 of the $22,837 with a category attached, or 93.9%. VB Spine LLC accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $22,479, more than ten times the $6 reported in 2019.
Across 17 payments — averaging $1343.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- VB Spine LLC$16K
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$6K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$128
- Stryker$116
- Globus Medical$115
- Medtronic$57
- plus $6 from 1 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $16,700 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.
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$84K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,43994%
- Travel & lodging$6553%
- Food & beverage$7433%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VB Spine LLC | 6 | $16,040 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $6,375 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Stryker | 4 | $116 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $115 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $57 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$15,291
- HemoBlast Bellows$6,375
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$655
- Vader Pedicle System$128
How this compares
$22,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Boston
- Paul TornettaBoston$16.3M
- Thomas ThornhillBoston$12M
- Andrew FreibergBoston$5.9M
- Jon WarnerBoston$5.4M
- Wolfgang FitzBoston$3.7M
- John KwonBoston$663K
- Christopher ChiodoBoston$539K
- Andrew WhiteBoston$438K
- Carl TalmoBoston$315K
- Michael KainBoston$171K
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.