Michael Tarnoff
Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1003918954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $877,590 of the $1,385,858 with a category attached, or 63.3%. Angiodynamics, Inc. accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery 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 85 payments — averaging $16,304 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1.3M
- Aspen Surgical Products, Inc.$36K
- Medtronic$22K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$7K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Histosonics, Inc.$929
- plus $16 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,0002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$877,59063%
- Travel & lodging$16,0201%
- Food & beverage$9,2421%
- Ownership interest$456,00633%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 64 | $1,317,774 |
| Aspen Surgical Products, Inc. | 2 | $35,866 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $22,108 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $7,000 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $2,166 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $929 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Nanoknife$1,109,759
- NONE$7,000
- DA VINCI SP$2,000
- Adapta$259
- Da Vinci Surgical System$166
How this compares
$1,385,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 694 surgery providers in Massachusetts.
Other surgery in Boston
- Omar KudsiBoston$886K
- Ankit MehtaBoston$278K
- Johannes KratzBoston$79K
- Ian BehrBoston$56K
- Parsia VagefiBoston$53K
- Abdelrahman NimeriBoston$50K
- Denise GeeBoston$40K
- Matthew HutterBoston$37K
- Barbara BlancoBoston$36K
- Frederick DrakeBoston$36K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.