Katharine Nicholson
Neurology · Boston, MANPI 1033343256
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $19,933 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogen$311K
- Orphai Therapeutics Inc.$101K
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
- Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.$2K
- Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc.$697
- Regeneron$500
Across 1 payment — averaging $604.85 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.
- Biogen$605
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,39193%
- Travel & lodging$6456%
- Food & beverage$1581%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biogen | 8 | $310,825 |
| Orphai Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $101,156 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $3,706 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $1,701 |
| Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc. | 5 | $697 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $500 |
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
$418,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 761 neurology providers in Massachusetts.
Other neurology in Boston
- Stephanie RutrickBoston$31.4M
- Scott PlotkinBoston$26.3M
- Patrick WenBoston$18.2M
- James BerryBoston$8.9M
- Isabel Arrillaga-RomanyBoston$8.2M
- Mahmut GurolBoston$7.4M
- Gad MarshallBoston$6M
- Shawn MurphyBoston$5.9M
- Suma BabuBoston$5.8M
- Luis Gonzalez CastroBoston$5.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.