Has Erik Folch, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $543,042 in general payments to Erik Folch, MD across 656 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Erik Folch, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Erik Folch, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Erik Folch, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Boston, MANPI 1578739231

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $346,812 of the $543,042 with a category attached, or 63.9%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $154,045, 4.4 times the $35,029 reported in 2019. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$543,042in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 656 payments — averaging $827.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$302K
Medtronic$104K
Cook Incorporated$42K
Boston Scientific$37K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$22K
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$19K
plus $17K from 8 others

$92,489in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $2983.52 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.

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.$76K
Medtronic$12K
Covidien LP$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$62,77512%
Speaking & faculty fees$346,81264%
Travel & lodging$103,53719%
Food & beverage$17,8913%
Education$12,0142%
Gifts$140%

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
Intuitive Surgical	343	$302,248
Medtronic	192	$104,076
Cook Incorporated	23	$41,695
Boston Scientific	35	$37,362
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	17	$21,717
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	22	$18,590
Covidien LP	13	$16,738
Pulmonx Corporation	4	$290
Johnson & Johnson	2	$92
Verona Pharma, Inc.	1	$82
Auris Health, Inc.	1	$80
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	1	$30
Olympus America Inc.	1	$22
Grifols USA, LLC	1	$20

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

$543,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 482 pulmonary disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$62,030

Medicare patients

194

Services billed

550

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.

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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.

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