Dirk Hentschel, MD
Nephrology · Boston, MANPI 1093771495
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $33,146 of the $51,718 with a category attached, or 64.1%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $25,950 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $1,540 in 2025. Among nephrology 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 56 payments — averaging $923.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$15K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$15K
- Laminate Medical Technologies Inc.$7K
- Surmodics, Inc.$4K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$3K
- Avenu Medical Inc.$3K
- plus $4K from 5 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $20,471 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.
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$90K
- Medtronic$12K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,14664%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,12022%
- Travel & lodging$5,87511%
- Food & beverage$1,5743%
- Education$30%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 21 | $15,050 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 8 | $14,873 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 4 | $7,085 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 4 | $4,380 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $3,250 |
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 3 | $2,995 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $2,786 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 5 | $1,040 |
| Stryker | 2 | $142 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Surfacer Inside-Out Catheter$7,970
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$3,250
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$3,250
- Ellipsys$2,900
- Argyle$2,560
- Palindrome$840
- Peritoneal Dialysis Systems$460
- WRAPSODY Endovascular Stent Graft System$350
- VasQ External Support$132
- COVERA$128
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$118
How this compares
$51,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 339 nephrology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 86 | $53,303 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Boston
- David FriedmanBoston$19.8M
- Martin PollakBoston$19.8M
- Dennis AusielloBoston$4.6M
- Ajay SinghBoston$916K
- Leslie FangBoston$388K
- Jean FrancisBoston$244K
- Joseph BonventreBoston$175K
- Andrew AllegrettiBoston$139K
- Ravi ThadhaniBoston$115K
- Meghan SiseBoston$113K
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.