Joseph Czarnecki, MD
Sports Medicine · Woburn, MANPI 1639147374
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vericel Corporation accounts for 86.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $28,267, 3.1 times the $9,035 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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.
Across 123 payments — averaging $752.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$80K
- Linvatec Corporation$11K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$683
- Smith+Nephew$183
- Stryker$173
- Bioventus LLC$128
- plus $240 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$35,74839%
- Speaking & faculty fees$51,77456%
- Travel & lodging$1,6102%
- Food & beverage$3,3994%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 56 | $80,411 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 15 | $10,712 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 25 | $683 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $183 |
| Stryker | 3 | $173 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $128 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- MACI$76,250
- LINVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$9,001
- LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$1,358
- LINVATEC EXTREMITIES$114
How this compares
$92,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 138 sports 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.
Other sports medicine in Woburn
- Lauren SzolomayerWoburn$12K
- Brian BusconiWorcester$684K
- Thomas WuerzWaltham$464K
- Elizabeth MatzkinBoston$182K
- Thomas GillDedham$168K
- Xinning LiBoston$109K
- Sarav ShahBrighton$90K
- Miho TanakaBoston$89K
- James OholleranPeabody$82K
- Kai MithoeferDed Ham$64K
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.