Top Dentist in Massachusetts by Industry Payments

This analysis ranks the top dentist practitioners in Massachusetts by total payments received from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, based on CMS Open Payments data. The 20 providers listed here collectively received $971,320 over the covered period.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2021–2023 Providers analyzed: 20 State: Massachusetts
$971,320
Total Industry Payments
Across all providers in this analysis
20
Providers Analyzed
With at least one payment on record
$25,685
Median Total Payments
Half of providers received more, half received less
Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Top Dentist by Total Industry Payments — Massachusetts

CMS Open Payments
# Provider Total Payments Companies Years Active
1
Cindy Moon
Waltham, MA
$251,581
1 2021–2023
2
Panagiotis Papaspyridakos
Boston, MA
$231,620
4 2018–2024
3
James Stein
Boston, MA
$103,349
5 2018–2024
4
Michael Courtney
Lowell, MA
$57,684
11 2018–2024
5
Boston, MA
$36,414
12 2018–2023
6
Attleboro, MA
$36,111
9 2018–2024
7
Brett Stein
Boston, MA
$29,637
5 2018–2024
8
Medford, MA
$29,150
8 2018–2024
9
Wonsuk Joo
Norwood, MA
$28,317
12 2018–2024
10
Rusell Giordano
Marlborough, MA
$25,685
5 2018–2023
11
Matthew Annese
Boston, MA
$19,777
12 2018–2024
12
Mariam Malament
Boston, MA
$19,093
4 2020–2024
13
Matthew Haddad
Boston, MA
$18,635
6 2018–2024
14
Jolanta Macdonald
Northborough, MA
$15,449
4 2019–2024
15
Acton, MA
$12,813
8 2018–2024
16
Alaa Ahmed
Lunenburg, MA
$11,666
7 2018–2024
17
Douglas Storch
Cambridge, MA
$11,541
2 2018–2024
18
Gian Calandrelli
Seekonk, MA
$11,486
2 2021–2024
19
Kamar Baloul
Boston, MA
$10,808
1 2018–2023
20
Bruce Doyle
Avon, MA
$10,501
5 2018–2024

State payment context — Dentist in Massachusetts

CMS Open Payments

Beyond the top recipients listed above, 1,778 dentist providers in Massachusetts have at least one disclosed industry payment, totaling $2,146,282 (2018–2024).

The median dentist provider in Massachusetts received $222 in total payments, versus a national median of $226 for the same specialty.

Payments to this specialty in Massachusetts peaked in 2023, when $574,654 changed hands across 3,179 transactions. Straumann USA LLC has been the largest single payer over the period, and Boston leads all Massachusetts cities in payment volume for this specialty.

Top companies paying Dentist providers in Massachusetts

Company Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Straumann USA LLC $369,277 552 1,945
Semler Scientific, Inc. $251,581 1 4
A-dec, Inc. $180,286 130 652
ZIMVIE INC. $177,990 350 2,146
Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $169,116 364 2,031
Nobel Biocare USA $124,902 224 430
Align Technology, Inc. $123,348 537 2,264
BIOLASE, INC. $71,984 51 121

Industry payments to Dentist providers in Massachusetts by year

Year Total payments Providers paid Transactions
2018 $229,585 704 1,881
2019 $162,986 778 2,108
2020 $131,983 583 1,606
2021 $334,784 693 2,269
2022 $325,781 791 2,406
2023 $574,654 867 3,179
2024 $386,510 939 3,069

Top Massachusetts cities for Dentist industry payments

City Total payments Providers paid Transactions
Boston $704,334 334 3,359
Waltham $263,830 21 133
Lowell $88,931 25 380
Medford $43,364 12 198
Cambridge $42,508 41 565
Worcester $41,424 58 538
Attleboro $39,646 13 196
Quincy $37,140 49 437
Methodology Providers filtered to Massachusetts-licensed dentist practitioners (NPI taxonomy code 122300000X) with at least one Open Payments record. Payments aggregated across all years and all payment types. Rankings reflect cumulative totals, not annualized figures. Data source: CMS Open Payments, accessed via doctransparency.com database.
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