Elias Arous, MD
Vascular Surgery · Worcester, MANPI 1477537611
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,000 of the $6,493 with a category attached, or 61.6%. Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,033 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $155 in 2025.
Across 77 payments — averaging $84.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$1K
- Endologix LLC$327
- Veryan Medical Incorporated$225
- Johnson & Johnson$192
- Cook Medical LLC$153
- plus $388 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00062%
- Food & beverage$2,49338%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $4,012 |
| Medtronic | 50 | $1,196 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $327 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $225 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $192 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $153 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $97 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ANASTOCLIP$4,000
- TurboHawk$316
- BioMimics$225
- Zenith Alpha$153
How this compares
$6,493 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 142 vascular 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.
Other vascular surgery in Worcester
- Dejah JudelsonWorcester$92K
- Andres SchanzerWorcester$84K
- Edward ArousWorcester$29K
- John NajjarWorcester$10K
- Elizabeth MahanorWorcester$7K
- Thomas OdonnellBoston$845K
- Scott JamesPlymouth$199K
- Anahita DuaBoston$186K
- Jonathan GertlerWeston$90K
- Richard PinNorth Dartmouth$73K
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.