Hepatology in Massachusetts
13 providers, $779,815 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays hepatology clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 11 hepatology clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,018,843 in total — an average of $92,622 each, of which $92,622 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Nezam AfdhalBoston$331,505
- 2Fredric GordonBoston$283,836
- 3Michael CurryBoston$88,505
- 4Daryl LauBoston$42,141
- 5Zachary FrickerBoston$9,376
- 6Michelle LaiBoston$6,450
- 7Simon RobsonBoston$5,813
- 8Amir QamarBurlington$5,019
- 9Sanjiv ChopraBoston$4,190
- 10Vilas PatwardhanBoston$2,205
- 11Laurence BailenNewton$459
- 12Dusanka GrbicBoston$304
- 13Lauren YangBoston$11