Pediatric Nephrology in Massachusetts
23 providers, $212,750 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $240.
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 pediatric nephrology clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 4 pediatric nephrology clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $27,248 in total — an average of $6,812 each, of which $6,812 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
- 1Deborah SteinBoston$43,128
- 2Michael SomersBoston$34,227
- 3Avram TraumBoston$33,071
- 4Michelle BaumBoston$31,569
- 5Ann SalernoWorcester$24,750
- 6Weizhen TanBoston$16,717
- 7Matthew SampsonBoston$13,684
- 8Ankana DagaBoston$10,650
- 9Neena GuptaWorcester$3,302
- 10Isa AshoorBoston$281
- 11Nasreen AzamNorthampton$275
- 12Amita SharmaBoston$240
- 13Lawrence MilnerBoston$163
- 14Paul FadakarBoston$151
- 15Jennifer FishbeinWorcester$125
- 16Elena ZionBoston$119
- 17Amirtha ChinnaduraiWorcester$116
- 18Michael FergusonBoston$101
- 19Farhana AmanullahBoston$32
- 20Ghaleb DaoukBoston$26
- 21Nancy RodigBoston$23
- 22Amar MajmundarBoston$2
- 23David BriscoeBoston$0