David Forcione, MD
Gastroenterology · Boston, MANPI 1093796914
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 77.2% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $26,289 and has fallen 58.3% since, to $10,960 in 2025. Among gastroenterology clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 225 payments — averaging $218.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$38K
- Conmed Corporation$3K
- Pentax Of America, Inc.$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Medtronic$891
- Endogastric Solutions, Inc$604
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,00024%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,12543%
- Grants$290%
- Travel & lodging$2,1214%
- Food & beverage$13,99028%
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 | 75 | $38,020 |
| Conmed Corporation | 37 | $3,118 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 27 | $1,625 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 15 | $1,118 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $891 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 9 | $604 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 6 | $444 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $431 |
| Omega Medical Imaging, LLC | 1 | $378 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 3 | $295 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $285 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $283 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $263 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $244 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $196 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $155 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $142 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $125 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $95 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 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.
- SPYGLASS$18,875
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$6,427
- CONMED BILIARY$2,539
- PENTAX Medical$1,192
- AXIOS$753
- CONMED HEMOSTASIS$751
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$673
- INSPIRA$596
- C2 CryoBalloon Focal Controller$596
- C2 Cryoballoon$596
- CONMED GENERATORS$558
- EndoFlip$409
- ESOPHYX$406
- ECHOTIP INSIGHT$369
- VOQUEZNA$368
- EXALT Model D$348
- Hemospray$225
- ALIYA SYSTEM$186
- FUJIFILM$170
- SYNCHROMEDII$164
How this compares
$49,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 579 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levofloxacin | 97 | $292 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $173 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 22 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Boston
- Hiroyuki AiharaBoston$728K
- Jessica AllegrettiBoston$696K
- John LeungBoston$682K
- Ramnik XavierBoston$567K
- Adam CheifetzBoston$512K
- Carlo TraversoBoston$447K
- Tyler BerzinBoston$215K
- Marvin RyouBoston$162K
- Nneka UfereBoston$153K
- Christopher ThompsonBoston$127K
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.