Walter Sussman, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Wellesley, MANPI 1538457684
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,338 of the $49,704 with a category attached, or 69.1%. Trice Medical, Inc. accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,327, more than ten times the $287 reported in 2019. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation 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 85 payments — averaging $584.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trice Medical, Inc.$38K
- Tenex Health Inc.$6K
- Bioventus LLC$3K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
- Banner Surgical Solutions, Inc$826
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$133
- plus $764 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,33869%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5005%
- Grants$1,2503%
- Travel & lodging$7,11214%
- Food & beverage$4,4389%
- Gifts$670%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 29 | $37,857 |
| Tenex Health Inc. | 12 | $5,806 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $2,558 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 8 | $1,761 |
| Banner Surgical Solutions, Inc | 5 | $826 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $133 |
| Stryker | 3 | $131 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $118 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $112 |
| Vertex | 3 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $43 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- XCELL$2,500
- Sx-One Microknife$1,585
- ULTRAGUIDECTR$125
- ULTRAGUIDETFR$125
- Interfyl$117
How this compares
$49,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 244 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Massachusetts.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 18 | $275 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 66 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Wellesley
- Zachary BohartBurlington$633K
- Sabrina PaganoniCharlestown$80K
- Stephen KoelbelWeymouth$24K
- Moorice CaparoCharlestown$18K
- Didem InanogluBoston$13K
- Andrew DuarteWorcester$8K
- Jenna MeriggiHaverhill$6K
- Jerry Chi Chuan FangBrockton$5K
- Kevin BernardPeabody$5K
- Tara SwimBrockton$4K
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.