Obesity Medicine in Massachusetts
15 providers, $405,633 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 obesity medicine clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 14 obesity medicine clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $638,517 in total — an average of $45,608 each, of which $45,288 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
- 1Angela FitchBoston$387,244
- 2Chika AnekweBoston$6,882
- 3Amanda PowellBurlington$4,281
- 4Shirly RamchandaniBrighton$2,262
- 5Jennifer SchwartzNeedham$1,407
- 6Alexander RabinWareham$1,260
- 7Sunita TrivediWorcester$785
- 8Wesley DuttonBoston$510
- 9Joanne LebowBurlington$455
- 10Kevin GendreauBrockton$156
- 11Jeanne KilpWakefield$145
- 12Sathyavani PrabhakarBurlington$110
- 13Jessica InwoodFall River$93
- 14Michelle McKenneyWareham$26
- 15Nancy BlattBurlington$16