Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Muhammad Abd-El-Barr

Neurological Surgery Boston, MA Medical Doctor

NPI 1891922688 CMS profile 388804

75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115

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General payments

$139,900

254 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$7,000

Paid to them · 3 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$188,434 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2021–2025

Through program year 2025, Muhammad Abd-El-Barr of Boston, MA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $139,900 across 254 general payments and $7,000 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $188,434 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 92nd percentile of Neurological Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $30,919 37
2024 General $24,622 38
2023 General $23,240 53
2023 Research $7,000 3
2022 General $29,329 54
2021 General $11,911 34
2020 General $6,387 9
2019 General $13,493 29

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Muhammad Abd-El-Barr
  • Neurological Surgery median
  • Middle half of Neurological Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Muhammad Abd-El-Barr were reported at $30,919. Among 5,467 Neurological Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $596 and the middle half received between $159 and $3,102.

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Year Muhammad Abd-El-Barr Neurological Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $13,493 $582 $138–$3,006 $163
2020 $6,387 $294 $76–$2,174 $114
2021 $11,911 $387 $105–$2,432 $132
2022 $29,329 $542 $139–$2,989 $149
2023 $23,240 $534 $145–$2,697 $160
2024 $24,622 $574 $155–$3,046 $164
2025 $30,919 $596 $159–$3,102 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Spineology Inc. $42,196 16 payments
  2. Arthrex, Inc. $25,683 18 payments
  3. TrackX Technology, LLC $21,485 21 payments
  4. Globus Medical, Inc. $12,204 40 payments
  5. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $10,337 13 payments
  6. Spinal Elements, Inc. $5,025 10 payments
  7. Synthes GmbH $4,914 9 payments
  8. Medtronic, Inc. $4,750 53 payments
  9. Alphatec Spine, Inc $3,357 16 payments
  10. Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC $2,814 5 payments
  11. Other $7,135 53 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $64,663 27 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $37,863 9 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $21,411 73 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $13,463 142 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $1,500 2 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program $1,000 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DUO TI EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM $14,702 4 payments
  2. OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM $12,375 3 payments
  3. VIPER $8,552 6 payments
  4. Navigation System $6,500 1 payment
  5. Preserve TLIF $6,175 2 payments
  6. TrackX $5,908 12 payments
  7. MIS TLIF $4,250 1 payment
  8. Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System $3,000 1 payment
  9. MAZOR X SYSTEM $2,846 27 payments
  10. Other - Miscellaneous $2,445 9 payments
  11. Other $18,680 140 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Spinal Elements, Inc. $7,000 3 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 1 drug

Part D claims

22

Median for Neurosurgery: 83

Drug cost

$236

Median for Neurosurgery: $872

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for Neurosurgery: 16.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Pregabalin Generic 22 $236

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 2,779 Part D prescribers listed as Neurosurgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 44 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$127,730

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

247

Average age 72

Services billed

638

135 women, 112 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Depression 30%
Diabetes 29%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Ischemic heart disease 26%
Osteoporosis 17%
Atrial fibrillation 15%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

257 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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