RxDoctor Payments Data

Hadine Joffe

Psychiatry · Boston, MANPI 1447226956

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,637 of the $24,338 with a category attached, or 84.8%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 49.7% of the total. Among psychiatry 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.

$24,338in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $657.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$12K
  • Eisai Inc.$7K
  • Novo Nordisk$4K
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$802
  • Bayer$234
  • Therapeuticsmd, Inc.$123
$1,512,350in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $79,597 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.

  • Merck$809K
  • Pfizer$465K
  • Sage Therapeutics, LLC$238K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$20,63785%
  • Travel & lodging$2,85612%
  • Food & beverage$8453%

General payments by program year

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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
Merck18$12,087
Eisai Inc.12$7,373
Novo Nordisk2$3,720
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$802
Bayer3$234
Therapeuticsmd, Inc.1$123

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

$24,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,431 psychiatry providers in Massachusetts.

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