Trauma Surgery in Massachusetts
18 providers, $88,071 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 trauma surgery clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 14 trauma surgery clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,150,271 in total — an average of $82,162 each, of which $82,162 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
- 1Benjamin JohnsonBoston$19,504
- 2Charles ParsonsBoston$18,250
- 3Geoffrey AndersonBoston$13,398
- 4Sean HerseyFairhaven$13,206
- 5Martin RosenthalBoston$12,082
- 6Reza AskariBoston$4,431
- 7Michael DewaneBoston$1,947
- 8John HwabejireBoston$1,500
- 9Yamuna CareySpringfield$1,258
- 10Joanna EtraBoston$859
- 11Tony XiaNew Bedford$471
- 12George VelmahosBoston$456
- 13Abhishek SwarupBrighton$310
- 14Francesca IzzoWorcester$215
- 15Michael SzymanskiBoston$129
- 16Joseph PfeiferPittsfield$24
- 17Eleanor WinstonSpringfield$18
- 18Nicole PiscatelliWorcester$13