Scott Bortman
Internal Medicine · North Easton, MANPI 1518940568
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $27,007 of the $30,716 with a category attached, or 87.9%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novartis at 36.1% of the total. Among internal 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 186 payments — averaging $165.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$11K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$10K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
- Amgen$204
- plus $886 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,00788%
- Travel & lodging$1,0723%
- Food & beverage$2,6389%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 71 | $11,077 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $10,414 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $3,381 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $3,299 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 13 | $1,455 |
| Amgen | 9 | $204 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $191 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $150 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $98 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $82 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Gilead | 2 | $40 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$30,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other internal medicine in North Easton
- David SchenkeinBoston$5M
- Alan GarberCambridge$4.9M
- John FallonBoston$1.8M
- Michael MendelsohnBoston$1.6M
- Sandra RichmanBrookline$1.4M
- Gaurav SingalBoston$798K
- Asit ParikhBoston$486K
- Noopur RajeBoston$481K
- Daniel KuritzkesBoston$443K
- Xiuning leBoston$364K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.