Grace Niklas, MD
Internal Medicine · Hingham, MANPI 1093740599
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 477 payments — averaging $20.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Novo Nordisk$723
- Boehringer Ingelheim$675
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,733100%
- Education$250%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 68 | $1,290 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 62 | $1,139 |
| AstraZeneca | 48 | $1,099 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 46 | $1,075 |
| Novo Nordisk | 39 | $723 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 34 | $675 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 24 | $631 |
| Merck | 38 | $627 |
| GSK | 18 | $506 |
| Exact Sciences | 15 | $323 |
| Novartis | 12 | $264 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $202 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 11 | $197 |
| Bayer | 9 | $185 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $182 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $119 |
| Amgen | 4 | $82 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $67 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$9,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 70 | $79,076 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 69 | $73,284 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 52 | $52,475 |
| EliquisApixaban | 61 | $41,231 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 20 | $20,503 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 480 | $10,574 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 208 | $9,726 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 12 | $9,013 |
| JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl | 12 | $6,201 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 16 | $5,888 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 13 | $3,260 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 145 | $2,785 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 324 | $2,580 |
| Amlodipine Besylate-BenazeprilAmlodipine Besylate/Benazepril | 68 | $2,250 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 16 | $2,203 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Jentadueto | $675 | $88,49893 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $723 | $79,07670 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $627 | $72,97872 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $1,290 | $41,23161 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $506 | $5,88816 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $1,139 | $1,12915 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other internal medicine in Hingham
- Noopur RajeBoston$19.9M
- Michael McCartneyNewburyport$17.6M
- Rebecca HeistBoston$17.4M
- Richard PlattBoston$13.5M
- Ryan CorcoranBoston$11.4M
- Joyce LiuCharlestown$10.3M
- Elizabeth LeeBoston$9.8M
- Adnan DahdulSpringfield$8.8M
- Ryan SullivanCambridge$8.5M
- Xiuning leBoston$7.9M
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.