RxDoctor Payments Data

Yoav Golan, MD

Infectious Disease · Boston, MANPI 1487760203

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $750,489 of the $1,091,019 with a category attached, or 68.8%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $301,359 and has fallen 57.6% since, to $127,800 in 2025. Among infectious disease 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.

$1,091,019in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,073 payments — averaging $1016.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$348K
  • AbbVie$307K
  • Merck$139K
  • Shionogi Inc$79K
  • Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$79K
  • Pfizer$52K
  • plus $88K from 12 others
$707,154in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $17,248 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.

  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$638K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$42K
  • Merck$26K
  • Genentech, Inc.$500

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$82,5868%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$750,48969%
  • Travel & lodging$236,47922%
  • Food & beverage$20,7792%
  • Education$6850%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.340$347,719
AbbVie(2 entities)341$306,525
Merck147$139,013
Shionogi Inc56$78,762
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.40$78,540
Pfizer(2 entities)39$52,171
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.52$52,102
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.27$21,483
Pfizer S.a.s.10$3,212
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC3$3,163
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.6$3,083
Pfizer Chile S.A.1$2,000
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.4$1,181
Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.2$830
Kowa Research Institute, Inc.1$575
KOWA Company, LTD.1$575
Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC2$54
Biomerieux Inc1$32

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

$1,091,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 368 infectious disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,376
Medicare patients
80
Services billed
281

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf3,609$1,096,390
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf2,931$616,766
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac1,261$82,243
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf251$74,268
TwinrixHepatitis A And B Vaccine/Pf34$4,797
HavrixHepatitis A Virus Vaccine/Pf16$1,588

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerAbrysvo$52,171$1,096,3903,609 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 95th percentile of 368 infectious disease providers in Massachusetts.

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