Has Richard Ma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,109 in general payments to Richard Ma, MD across 25 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Ma, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Ma, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Ma, MD

Hospitalist · Burlington, MANPI 1013995398

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,368 of the $2,109 with a category attached, or 64.9%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 58.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,233 and has fallen 68.8% since, to $384 in 2024. Among hospitalist 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.

$2,109in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $84.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$1K
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$384
Merz North America, Inc.$155
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$149
Johnson & Johnson$100
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$88

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$74035%
Food & beverage$1,36865%

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
Arthrex	10	$1,233
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$384
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$155
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$149
Johnson & Johnson	1	$100
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$88

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.

DAXXIFY$162
XEOMIN$139
DAXI$107
XARELTO$100
LifeVest$100

How this compares

$2,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 599 hospitalist providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,836

Medicare patients

267

Services billed

493

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
EliquisApixaban	26	$14,828
JantovenWarfarin Sodium	90	$895

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Jimsheed ShahriarBurlington$669
Nina YaftaliBurlington$440
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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.

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