Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated: payments to clinicians
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's payments to clinicians rose 28% in 2025, to $8,308,526 across 29,378 people. Most of it (54%) was consulting fees, then speaking and faculty fees (22%). The largest single recipient (Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Washington) received $1,000,939.
| Program year | Total | Payments | Clinicians paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $8,308,526 | 47,819 | 29,378 |
| 2024 | $6,514,399 | 10,957 | 8,359 |
Largest recipients in 2025
| # | Clinician | Specialty | Location | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford Lee-Yu Peng, MD, PHD, FACP | Internal Medicine, Rheumatology | Seattle, WA | $1,000,939 |
| 2 | Jennifer J. Schneider, MD | Hospitalist | Santa Rosa, CA | $637,318 |
| 3 | Stephen G. Waxman, MD | Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology | New Haven, CT | $185,081 |
| 4 | Leslie S. Kean, MD/PHD | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Boston, MA | $147,695 |
| 5 | Rajiv Agarwal, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Indianapolis, IN | $139,729 |
| 6 | Vinod Dasa, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Kenner, LA | $103,625 |
| 7 | Scott A. Sigman, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | North Chelmsford, MA | $90,589 |
| 8 | Glenn Matthew Chertow, MD | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Stanford, CA | $82,483 |
| 9 | Nirav Hasmukh Amin, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Placentia, CA | $70,981 |
| 10 | Gregory William Terman | Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine | Seattle, WA | $69,160 |
| 11 | Stephan A. Grupp, M.D. | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Philadelphia, PA | $64,032 |
| 12 | Raymond W. Hwang, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine | Chestnut Hill, MA | $60,272 |
| 13 | David J. Shulkin, MD | Internal Medicine | Morristown, NJ | $60,000 |
| 14 | Michael Magdy Bottros, MD | Anesthesiology | Los Angeles, CA | $56,745 |
| 15 | Scott Gottlieb, MD | Internal Medicine | Stamford, CT | $50,000 |
| 16 | Camillo Ricordi, MD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Miami, FL | $48,500 |
| 17 | Kevin D. Plancher, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | New York, NY | $47,596 |
| 18 | Andrew R. Noble, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery | Palm Beach Gardens, FL | $46,551 |
| 19 | Anthony Michael Gonzalez, M.D. | Surgery | Miami, FL | $44,643 |
| 20 | Reed Loring Levine, M.D | Pain Medicine, Pain Medicine | Pasadena, CA | $43,736 |
| 21 | Jacob Lee Hutchins, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Minneapolis, MN | $42,396 |
| 22 | Alexander P. Sah, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery | Fremont, CA | $41,899 |
| 23 | Sabry S. Ayad, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Cleveland, OH | $41,291 |
| 24 | Erin M. King-Mullins, M.D. | Colon & Rectal Surgery | Macon, GA | $41,183 |
| 25 | Nicole A. Turgeon, M.D. | Transplant Surgery | Austin, TX | $40,579 |
| 26 | Rajiv D. Pandya, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Stockbridge, GA | $38,679 |
| 27 | Bidhan Das, M.D. | Colon & Rectal Surgery | Sugar Land, TX | $37,999 |
| 28 | James Labelle | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Chicago, IL | $36,200 |
| 29 | Evan D. Kharasch, MD | Anesthesiology | Saint Louis, MO | $35,448 |
| 30 | Rohit Sanjeev Aiyer, M.D. | Pain Medicine, Pain Medicine | Huntington Beach, CA | $34,992 |
| 31 | Haydar Frangoul, MD | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Nashville, TN | $34,123 |
| 32 | Maxim Savillion Eckmann, MD | Anesthesiology | San Antonio, TX | $34,009 |
| 33 | John W. Uribe, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Coral Gables, FL | $32,805 |
| 34 | Ahmet Uluer, DO | Pediatrics, Pediatric Pulmonology | Boston, MA | $30,777 |
| 35 | Bradley W. Wargo, D.O. | Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Medicine | Huntsville, AL | $30,542 |
| 36 | Alan Michael Garber, M.D., PH.D. | Internal Medicine | Cambridge, MA | $30,156 |
| 37 | John P. Manis, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Hematology & Oncology | Boston, MA | $29,938 |
| 38 | Marcus Alvarez Lehman, MD | Anesthesiology | Cincinnati, OH | $29,700 |
| 39 | Neel Mehta, MD | Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Medicine | New York, NY | $29,390 |
| 40 | Ronald Paik, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Arlington, VA | $28,398 |
| 41 | Sonu Abhishek Jain, M.D. | Plastic Surgery | Cincinnati, OH | $28,288 |
| 42 | Zahra Pakbaz, MD | Internal Medicine, Hematology | Orange, CA | $28,275 |
| 43 | Stefan Somlo, MD | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | New Haven, CT | $28,125 |
| 44 | Allen P. Lu, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | City Of Industry, CA | $28,121 |
| 45 | Jayesh Kishor Patel, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Tyler, TX | $27,631 |
| 46 | Philip S. Kim, MD | Pain Medicine, Pain Medicine | Bryn Mawr, PA | $27,061 |
| 47 | Sanjib Das Adhikary, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Hershey, PA | $26,910 |
| 48 | Ali Nairizi, MD PC | Pain Medicine, Interventional Pain Medicine | Reno, NV | $26,791 |
| 49 | Ajay Wasan | Psychiatry & Neurology, Pain Medicine | Pittsburgh, PA | $26,628 |
| 50 | Patrick A. Flume, MD | Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease | Charleston, SC | $26,597 |
| 51 | Patrick A. Deheer, DPM | Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery | Indianapolis, IN | $26,440 |
| 52 | Eugene R. Viscusi, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Philadelphia, PA | $25,525 |
| 53 | Theresa Mallick-Searle, N.P. | Nurse Practitioner | Stanford, CA | $24,791 |
| 54 | Sujit Sheth | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | New York, NY | $24,754 |
| 55 | Matthew Stiebel, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | West Palm Beach, FL | $24,721 |
| 56 | Ali Gharavi, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | New York, NY | $24,596 |
| 57 | Stuart D. Miller, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery, Foot and Ankle Surgery | Baltimore, MD | $23,566 |
| 58 | Sonali S. Chaudhury, MD | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Chicago, IL | $23,255 |
| 59 | Martin H. Steinberg, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Hematology | Boston, MA | $23,118 |
| 60 | George L. Deloach, DO | Orthopaedic Surgery | Livingston, TX | $22,832 |
| 61 | Michael Rickels, MD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Philadelphia, PA | $22,599 |
| 62 | Loran Alfy Mounir Soliman, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Charlotte, NC | $22,477 |
| 63 | David F. Dalury, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Towson, MD | $22,424 |
| 64 | Gentzon Hall, M.D. | Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | Durham, NC | $22,103 |
| 65 | Martin J. O'Malley, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | New York, NY | $22,000 |
| 66 | Melena Dawn Bellin, MD | Pediatrics, Pediatric Endocrinology | Minneapolis, MN | $21,600 |
| 67 | Po-Yi Paul Su, MD | Anesthesiology | San Francisco, CA | $21,501 |
| 68 | Alan Jeffrey Rechter, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Houston, TX | $21,247 |
| 69 | Jamil R. Azzi, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Boston, MA | $21,084 |
| 70 | Raja Kandaswamy, MD | Surgery | Minneapolis, MN | $20,897 |
| 71 | Matthew James Lesneski, MD | Pain Medicine, Pain Medicine | Mount Laurel, NJ | $20,776 |
| 72 | Peter Cawood Butler, MD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Los Angeles, CA | $20,564 |
| 73 | Anil Kumar Chandraker, MBCHB | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Worcester, MA | $20,150 |
| 74 | Piotr Witkowski | Transplant Surgery | Chicago, IL | $19,910 |
| 75 | Joshua A. Urban, M.D. | Orthopaedic Surgery | Omaha, NE | $18,693 |
| 76 | Steven Clendenen, MD | Anesthesiology | Jacksonville, FL | $18,155 |
| 77 | Thomas K. Dahlberg, DO | Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine | Rockford, IL | $17,969 |
| 78 | Nathaniel Marc Schuster, M.D. | Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine | San Diego, CA | $17,498 |
| 79 | Jessica Clayton McCoun, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Rome, GA | $17,497 |
| 80 | Kraig Robert Pepper, DO PA | Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine | Fort Worth, TX | $17,440 |
| 81 | Hanny Toban Al-Samkari, MD | Internal Medicine, Hematology & Oncology | Boston, MA | $17,400 |
| 82 | Laura M. Dember, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Philadelphia, PA | $17,396 |
| 83 | Todd Bertoch, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Prescott, AZ | $17,339 |
| 84 | Charles Argoff, MD | Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology | Albany, NY | $17,329 |
| 85 | Richard Alan Lafayette, M.D. | Internal Medicine, Nephrology | Stanford, CA | $17,144 |
| 86 | Ugochi Olivia Ogu, M.D | Internal Medicine, Hematology & Oncology | Memphis, TN | $17,083 |
| 87 | Shalini Suresh Shah, MD | Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine | Orange, CA | $17,043 |
| 88 | Michael E. Pollack, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Flemington, NJ | $16,959 |
| 89 | Leslie Elaine Lehmann, MD | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Boston, MA | $16,793 |
| 90 | Ivan Urits, MD | Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine | Wareham, MA | $16,701 |
| 91 | Jennifer Brigitte Green, MD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Durham, NC | $16,650 |
| 92 | Brian Matthew Curtin, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Charlotte, NC | $16,586 |
| 93 | Venee N. Tubman, M.D. | Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology | Houston, TX | $16,382 |
| 94 | Rodica Busui, MD, PHD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | Portland, OR | $16,330 |
| 95 | Stewart G. Albert, MD | Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism | St Louis, MO | $16,275 |
| 96 | Mark Schultzel, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | San Diego, CA | $16,238 |
| 97 | Steven Stanos Jr., DO | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Medicine | Seattle, WA | $16,107 |
| 98 | Jeremy M. Shefner, M.D. | Psychiatry & Neurology, Neurology | Phoenix, AZ | $16,084 |
| 99 | Naileshni Singh, M.D. | Anesthesiology | Sacramento, CA | $15,837 |
| 100 | Fletcher A. Reynolds, MD | Orthopaedic Surgery | Fort Myers, FL | $15,747 |
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