Natalie Joseph
Adolescent Medicine · Boston, MANPI 1568445906
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.6%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Merck accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,547, 7.5 times the $1,000 reported in 2020. Among adolescent 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 13 payments — averaging $822.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$11K
- Atrium Medical Corporation$175
Across 22 payments — averaging $85,154 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.
- Merck$1.9M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,54543%
- Travel & lodging$6,04457%
- Food & beverage$971%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $10,511 |
| Atrium Medical Corporation | 1 | $175 |
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.
- FLIXENE$175
How this compares
$10,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 59 adolescent medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other adolescent medicine in Boston
- Areej HassanBoston$52K
- Catherine GordonBoston$14K
- Pamela MurrayBoston$303
- Amy DivastaBoston$292
- Sarah EmansBoston$121
- Jessica AddisonBoston$115
- Christina NordtBoston$57
- Michal YoungsterBoston$55
- Stephanie CorradoBoston$34
- Joanna BrownBoston$23
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.