Neurosurgery in Massachusetts
10 providers, $1,822 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 neurosurgery clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 10 neurosurgery clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $285,060 in total — an average of $28,506 each, of which $28,506 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
- 1Krishna NirmelNatick$1,573
- 2Robert CantuConcord$134
- 3Michael GiegerNorwood$115
- 4Herbert CaresNewton$0
- 5Catherine MunroWeymouth$0
- 6Brooke SwearingenBoston$0
- 7Frederick BarkerBoston$0
- 8Laszlo TamasPittsfield$0
- 9William ButlerBoston$0
- 10Paul ChapmanBoston$0