RxDoctor Payments Data

Elizabeth Barnett

Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Boston, MANPI 1265415608

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Sobi, Inc accounts for 61.2% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,000 and has fallen 72.0% since, to $1,400 in 2025.

$8,174in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $583.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sobi, Inc$5K
  • Pfizer$3K
$5,491,926in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 343 payments — averaging $16,011 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.

  • Pfizer$5.4M
  • GSK$36K
  • Emergent Biosolutions Inc.$12K
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$8K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,40017%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,57556%
  • Travel & lodging$1,41417%
  • Food & beverage$7659%
  • Gifts$200%

General payments by program year

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23
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Sobi, Inc6$5,000
Pfizer8$3,173

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.

How this compares

$8,174 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 29 pediatric infectious diseases providers in Massachusetts.

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