Orthopaedic Trauma in Massachusetts
16 providers, $520,177 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 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 14 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,847,664 in total — an average of $131,976 each, of which $127,365 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
- 1Raymond SmithWorcester$179,039
- 2Marilyn HengBrighton$64,849
- 3Arvind von KeudellBoston$54,131
- 4Arun AnejaBoston$52,886
- 5Edward RodriguezBoston$51,751
- 6Mark SpraguePittsfield$33,475
- 7Ishaq IbrahimBoston$26,806
- 8Sravya ChallaBoston$14,318
- 9Nathan OlszewskiBoston$12,287
- 10Derek StenquistBoston$11,541
- 11Vinicius Ladeira CraveiroBoston$9,613
- 12Paul AppletonBoston$5,886
- 13Anthony DefelicePittsfield$3,323
- 14James HardingPittsfield$145
- 15Bennett BurnsSpringfield$109
- 16Julius BrechtSpringfield$18