Open Payments · Massachusetts

What drug & device companies paid Massachusetts doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $4.93B in payments to 46,683 Massachusetts physicians and teaching hospitals — broken down below by congressional district and county, plus who paid and who got paid. ‹ Back to the national map

$4.93B
reported 2018–2024
46,683
physicians paid
$105,512
avg / physician
2,241
companies paying
$20M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Massachusetts doctors, and who gets paid

2018–2024 reported payments, from Civly's loaded copy of CMS Open Payments. A payment is a disclosure, not an accusation.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
Genentech, Inc.$389M
PFIZER INC.$354M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$293M
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.$260M
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.,…$231M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$187M
Eli Lilly and Company$151M
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$132M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$123M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$119M

Biggest recipients

Massachusetts physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Friedman David$20M
Pollak Martin$20M
Stark Martha$18M
Harris John$15M
Tornetta Paul$15M
Thornhill Thomas$11M
Murphy Stephen$7M
Garber Alan$7M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$70M
Internal Medicine$53M
Nephrology$49M
Cardiovascular Disease$34M
Diagnostic Radiology$33M
Dermatology$30M
Psychiatry$26M
Hematology & Oncology$23M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

46,683

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$4.93B

reported across 1,329,165 individual payments.

How Massachusetts compares nationally

Massachusetts is one of the country's biggest markets for industry money, ranking 4th of 51 for total reported payments — $4.93B across 1,329,165 individual payments from 2018 to 2024, 6.3% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Spread across the 46,683 Massachusetts physicians and teaching hospitals that took at least one payment, that's $105,512 per recipient — about 154% above the $41,481 national average, 1st of 51 on a per-physician basis. Within the state, the biggest single payer was Genentech, Inc. at $389M; Orthopaedic Surgery took in more than any other specialty; the state's largest individual recipient, Friedman David, was paid $20M across 42 payments.

#4
of 51 — total payments
#1
of 51 — per physician
6.3%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

Every state gets the same breakdown — payments mapped by district and county, top payers and specialties, and a doctor lookup. Or start from the national map.