Noel Defelippo
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.1% of the total across 97 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,240 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $49 in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for urology clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $1,501.
Across 97 payments — averaging $19.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$442
- Johnson & Johnson$262
- Pfizer$201
- Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$121
- AbbVie$120
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$105
- plus $632 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1005%
- Food & beverage$1,73292%
- Education$493%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 22 | $442 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $262 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $201 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $120 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 3 | $54 |
| Amgen | 3 | $41 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 2 | $35 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Neotract Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
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.
- KEYTRUDA$100
How this compares
$1,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 327 urology providers in Massachusetts.
Other urology in Salem
- Alejandra BalenSalem$27K
- Christopher CutieBoston$3.5M
- Brian EisnerBoston$424K
- David StaskinBrighton$407K
- Liam HurleyNorth Andover$319K
- Stephen DretlerBoston$298K
- Abraham MorgentalerChestnut Hill$290K
- Louis LiouCambridge$278K
- Tony LuongoBoston$265K
- Ricardo MunarrizBoston$118K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.