Payam Salehi
Vascular Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1578737532
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $25,072 of the $39,690 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 37.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,611, 2.2 times the $4,349 reported in 2019. Among vascular surgery clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 281 payments — averaging $141.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endologix LLC$15K
- Bolton Medical Inc$7K
- Philips North America LLC$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $8K from 37 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $5020.24 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.
- Bolton Medical Inc$105K
- Inspiremd Ltd$725
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,34334%
- Travel & lodging$1,1003%
- Food & beverage$25,07263%
- Other$1750%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endologix LLC | 37 | $14,979 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 80 | $7,377 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $3,469 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 23 | $2,489 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 21 | $2,251 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $1,485 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 6 | $1,173 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $875 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $763 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $499 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 7 | $460 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 9 | $422 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $284 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $242 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $221 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $195 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $191 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Axogen | 3 | $177 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $156 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $155 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $152 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $148 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $119 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $93 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Stryker | 2 | $85 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $67 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $62 |
| Gilead | 3 | $53 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $37 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$10,336
- (9547) IGT Systems Undivided$3,443
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,883
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,942
- Relay Plus$1,507
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,444
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,173
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,059
- Grafts$988
- HemoBlast Bellows$886
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$797
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$753
- Relay Grafts$650
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$606
- IN.PACT Admiral$467
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$467
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$467
- Abre$331
- INTEGRA$319
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$316
How this compares
$39,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 142 vascular surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 31 | $773 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 20 | $526 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 17 | $150 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Boston
- Thomas OdonnellBoston$845K
- Anahita DuaBoston$186K
- Marc SchermerhornBoston$71K
- Edwin GravereauxBoston$61K
- Christopher KwolekBoston$55K
- Shivani KumarBoston$45K
- Richard CambriaBoston$43K
- Nicholas SwerdlowBoston$33K
- Mohamad HussainBoston$24K
- Stephanie TalutisBoston$22K
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.