Who Paid My Doc
Michael Szarek
Dentist, General Practice Lowell, MA Medical Doctor
NPI 1396728556 CMS profile 659241
75 Arcand Dr, Professional Park, Lowell, MA 01852
General payments
$43,778
Research payments
$15
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$8,846
Through program year 2025, Michael Szarek of Lowell, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $43,778 across 26 general payments and $15 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $8,846 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Dentist, General Practice profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
4 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $29,137 | 13 | |
| 2025 | Research | $15 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $14,381 | 7 | |
| 2023 | General | $261 | 6 |
Beside peers
- Michael Szarek
- Dentist, General Practice median
- Middle half of Dentist, General Practice
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Szarek were reported at $29,137. Among 41,122 Dentist, General Practice profiles paid that year, the median was $75 and the middle half received between $27 and $200.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Szarek | Dentist, General Practice median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $61 | $23–$158 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $73 | $24–$142 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $75 | $25–$184 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $75 | $27–$198 | $149 |
| 2023 | $261 | $77 | $28–$200 | $160 |
| 2024 | $14,381 | $74 | $27–$187 | $164 |
| 2025 | $29,137 | $75 | $27–$200 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 4 drugsPart D claims
61
Drug cost
$257
Branded share of claims
37.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denta 5000 Plus Fluoride (Sodium) | Brand | 12 | $127 | |
| Penicillin V Potassium | Generic | 16 | $82 | |
| Amoxicillin | Generic | 22 | $27 | |
| Sodium Fluoride Fluoride (Sodium) | Brand | 11 | $21 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 110,731 Part D prescribers listed as Dentist; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
27 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.