David Earle, MD
Surgery · Springfield, MANPI 1780779934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (37.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 34.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $37,204 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $536 in 2025. Among surgery 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 132 payments — averaging $527.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$24K
- Johnson & Johnson$20K
- Colorado Therapeutics LLC$16K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Olympus Medical Systems Corporation$2K
- plus $3K from 16 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $2500.00 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.
- New View Surgical, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$26,09037%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,57428%
- Travel & lodging$19,22928%
- Food & beverage$4,7707%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 21 | $23,876 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $20,367 |
| Colorado Therapeutics LLC | 7 | $16,244 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 18 | $2,513 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $1,765 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 1 | $1,710 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $1,407 |
| Acell, Inc. | 5 | $444 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $385 |
| BD | 7 | $175 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $135 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $129 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $111 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $107 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| New View Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $35 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
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.
- MONARCH$16,475
- XI_S+$16,125
- ProGrip$11,226
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$2,106
- OES CHOLEDOCHOFIBERSCOPE$1,710
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,668
- Phasix Mesh$1,114
- PHASIX$139
- Signia$137
- XARACOLL$111
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$107
How this compares
$69,663 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 694 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Springfield
- Richard EngelmanSpringfield$167K
- Ronald GrossSpringfield$20K
- Michael TarnoffBoston$1.4M
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Philip CohenBrockton$280K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Mark ConradMethuen$187K
- James HermenegildoFall River$178K
- Reuben ShinBurlington$158K
- Richard BirkettBeverly$93K
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.