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Maryellen Taplin, MD

Medical Oncology · Boston, MANPI 1437118627

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $94,089 of the $108,278 with a category attached, or 86.9%. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.1%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,308 and has fallen 71.1% since, to $7,893 in 2025.

$108,278in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $1216.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$15K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$14K
  • Clovis Oncology, Inc.$12K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$11K
  • Bayer$8K
  • Pfizer$8K
  • plus $40K from 13 others
$5,014,536in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 245 payments — averaging $20,467 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.

  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$4.5M
  • Epizyme, Inc.$367K
  • GSK$105K
  • Astellas Pharma Global Development$55K
  • Pfizer$7K
  • Amgen$3K
  • plus $1K from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$94,08987%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,6257%
  • Travel & lodging$4,3684%
  • Food & beverage$2,1392%
  • Education$570%

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.

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

$108,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 308 medical oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$59,506
Medicare patients
280
Services billed
608

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
NubeqaDarolutamide77$964,326
XtandiEnzalutamide19$244,778
Abiraterone Acetate62$129,580
OrgovyxRelugolix31$82,832
Prednisone83$370
Dexamethasone14$176
Tamsulosin Hcl17$129

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
BayerNubeqa$7,904$964,32677 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi$1,380$244,77819 claims
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate$3,481$129,58062 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 308 medical oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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