Lael Yonker
Pediatric Pulmonology · Boston, MANPI 1386849990
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,232 of the $21,463 with a category attached, or 98.9%. Vertex accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $17,556 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $92 in 2025.
Across 8 payments — averaging $2682.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$21K
- Baxter Healthcare$92
Across 35 payments — averaging $51,642 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.
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$1.5M
- Vertex$329K
- Cepheid$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,23299%
- Food & beverage$2311%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 7 | $21,371 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $92 |
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.
- TRIKAFTA$3,700
How this compares
$21,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 40 pediatric pulmonology providers in Massachusetts.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Boston
- Gregory SawickiBoston$96K
- Claudia OrdonezBoston$73K
- Thomas KinaneBoston$67K
- Ahmet UluerBoston$61K
- Robyn CohenBoston$16K
- Scott SchroederBoston$9K
- Henry DorkinBoston$6K
- Gary VisnerBoston$6K
- Jonathan GaffinBoston$1K
- Thomas MartinBoston$1K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.