Howard Weiner
Neurological Surgery · Brookline, MANPI 1699766238
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $23,675 of the $27,503 with a category attached, or 86.1%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 40.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,678 and has fallen 50.3% since, to $4,315 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $1309.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$11K
- Biogen$8K
- Genentech, Inc.$6K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$3K
- Novartis$136
Across 8 payments — averaging $112,548 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.
- Genentech, Inc.$550K
- Sanofi$200K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$150K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23,67586%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5005%
- Travel & lodging$1,1584%
- Food & beverage$1,1714%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 11 | $11,038 |
| Biogen | 2 | $7,788 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 5 | $6,041 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $2,500 |
| Novartis | 2 | $136 |
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
$27,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 183 neurological surgery providers in Massachusetts.
Other neurological surgery in Brookline
- Simcha WellerBoston$905K
- Paul HouleHyannis$774K
- Aman PatelBoston$734K
- Alireza AtriBoston$503K
- Frederik PenningsWorcester$471K
- Myron RolleBoston$290K
- Jeffrey ArleBurlington$284K
- John ChiBoston$280K
- Matthew PhilipsNorth Dartmouth$247K
- Erica BissonBurlington$240K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.