Paul Yu, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1154491793
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $517 of the $854 with a category attached, or 60.5%. Vertex accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $517 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $75 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in MA, where the typical reported total is $954.
Across 4 payments — averaging $213.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$517
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$138
- United Therapeutics Corporation$124
- Pfizer$75
Across 127 payments — averaging $17,180 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.
- Pfizer$2M
- Regeneron$177K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$51760%
- Food & beverage$33840%
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 | 1 | $517 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $124 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $75 |
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.
- OPSUMIT$138
How this compares
$854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine | 13 | $287,765 |
| EliquisApixaban | 29 | $38,485 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 23 | $36,389 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $27,614 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 14 | $21,656 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 16 | $15,277 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 123 | $4,086 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 79 | $1,533 |
| Ezetimibe | 39 | $1,526 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 33 | $737 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 16 | $563 |
| Losartan Potassium | 38 | $444 |
| Torsemide | 23 | $341 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 39 | $328 |
| Carvedilol | 33 | $327 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerVyndaqel, Eliquis | $75 | $326,25042 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 45th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Other cardiovascular disease in Boston
- Marc SabatineBoston$3.9M
- Elizabeth NabelBoston$2.2M
- Kenneth RosenfieldBoston$1.4M
- James JanuzziBoston$1.1M
- Muthiah VaduganathanBoston$972K
- Joseph LoscalzoBoston$926K
- Sunil KapurBoston$823K
- Paul ZeiBoston$786K
- Paul RidkerBoston$572K
- Ignacio Inglessis-AzuajeBoston$545K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.