Orofacial Pain in Massachusetts
9 providers, $2,879 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 orofacial pain clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 7 orofacial pain clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $105,159 in total — an average of $15,023 each, of which $15,023 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
- 1Donavon Khosrow AroniBoston$1,488
- 2Ifrana ZamanBoston$318
- 3Shuruq AlturkiBoston$218
- 4Jeffry ShaeferBoston$204
- 5Harpreet SinghBoston$186
- 6Patricia GuerreroBoston$171
- 7Soo Jin LeeBrookline$166
- 8Chao LuBoston$82
- 9Alberto MalacarneBoston$46