Eric Pierce, MD
Ophthalmology · Boston, MANPI 1578674941
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,500 of the $5,516 with a category attached, or 99.7%. Merck accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 3 payments — averaging $1838.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$6K
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$16
Across 9 payments — averaging $22,801 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.
- Spark Therapeutics, Inc.$141K
- AbbVie$64K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,500100%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 1 | $5,500 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
How this compares
$5,516 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 653 ophthalmology 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 ophthalmology in Boston
- Rishi SinghBoston$1.7M
- Adam RogersBoston$316K
- Bonnie HendersonBoston$279K
- Dean EliottBoston$250K
- Mina FarahaniBoston$227K
- Jia YinBoston$173K
- John MillerBoston$106K
- Elizabeth RossinBoston$101K
- Suzanne FreitagBoston$96K
- Nimesh PatelBoston$94K
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.