Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen, MD

  • Boston, MA
  • General surgeon
NPI1043200892PAC ID2062587231
Medicare services, 2024
28
Medicare patients, 2024
58
Part D claims, 2024
63
Publications
75
Hospital affiliations
1
Practice address
575 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
Practice phone
Call (617) 789-3000
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Primary practice

Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc.

Boston, Massachusetts

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Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen is a general surgeon in Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Cohen practices at Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Cohen's NPI, 1043200892, was assigned on October 24, 2005. Dr. Cohen graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 2001. Dr. Cohen holds Massachusetts license 216577.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
2062587231
NPI enumeration date
October 24, 2005
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes
Practice phone
(617) 789-3000
Professional email
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
51
Medical school graduation
2001

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Practice Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen practices at Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Cohen's primary practice is Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc., at 575 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116 in Suffolk County. The practice phone is (617) 789-3000.

  • Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc.
    575 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116 · Suffolk CountyPhone(617) 789-3000

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen is affiliated with 4 sites of care and 4 medical groups

Dr. Cohen's primary practice is Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Cohen is also affiliated with Boston Medical Center - South. The medical group on file is Steward Medical Group. Dmand AI also links Dr. Cohen to 3 more medical groups and 2 group practices and clinics, each named with a free account.

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Practice Data; and Dmand AI Affiliation Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's practice

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Cohen practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc.Available with a free account
+3 more sites and 3 medical groupsAvailable with a free account

Source: Dmand AI Technology Install Data

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Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen is one of 732 general surgeons in Massachusetts

Surgery is Dr. Cohen's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 208600000X. Dr. Cohen is licensed in Massachusetts.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Surgery, MassachusettsPrimaryLicense 216577 · taxonomy 208600000X

General surgeons near Dr. Cohen

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Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen billed Medicare for 28 services in 2024

CMS data shows 28 Medicare services from Dr. Cohen across 1 procedure code in 2024, all of them office visits, for 58 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $1,904 for them. Every service was in an office.

Medicare services, 202428
Medicare patients58
Paid by Medicare$1,904
Procedure codes1

Dr. Cohen's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 752024: 2863%

Dr. Cohen compared with the Massachusetts median for general surgeons, 2024

  • Dr. Cohen
  • Massachusetts median
Medicare services
28vs 20086% below
Medicare patients
58vs 15262% below
Part D claims
11vs 2250% below

Medians across 688 general surgeons in Massachusetts with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Dr. Cohen's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

CMS publishes codes billed for 11 or more Medicare patients. Each label is the code family; CPT descriptions are licensed by the AMA.

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen treated 58 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 68

CMS counts 58 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Cohen in 2024. The largest group is under 65, with 20 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 52% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.61, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Cohen's median patient age at 55, with 64% women.

Medicare patients, 202458
Average age68
Average risk score1.61
Also on Medicaid52%

Dr. Cohen's Medicare patients by age, 2024

CMS leaves out age groups with fewer than 11 patients.

Dr. Cohen's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women3153%
  • Men2747%

Chronic conditions among Dr. Cohen's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Anxiety53%
  4. Arthritis53%
  5. Mood disorders43%
  6. Depression40%
  7. Diabetes38%
  8. Ischemic heart disease31%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Dr. Cohen's patients across all payers

Dmand AI patient panel data covers Medicare, Medicaid and commercial patients.

Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 55

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women64%
  • Men34%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen wrote 63 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Dr. Cohen wrote 63 Medicare Part D claims for 19 patients. 100% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 11 of them, across 1 drug with 11 or more claims each, at $158 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 58 claims across 4 drugs.

Part D claims, 202463
Drugs named by CMS1
Total drug cost$158
Part D patients19

Dr. Cohen's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2024

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Claims for drugs CMS names
2023: 582024: 1181%

Drugs named by CMS: 1 in 2024, 4 in 2023.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen offers telehealth to Medicare patients

Dr. Cohen accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment. CMS lists Dr. Cohen as offering telehealth.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Offers telehealth
Yes

Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux: 1 to 10 procedures (CMS shows small counts as a range)

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS)

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Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen has 75 publications on record

Dmand AI links 75 papers to Dr. Cohen, published from 2002 to 2024. 2019 was the busiest year, with 5. The most frequent topics are Signal Transduction, Phosphorylation and Ubiquitin. Dr. Cohen has published most often in Biochem J. Dr. Cohen's most frequent co-authors are Philip R. Cohen, MD, Peter Cheung, MD and Vikram Ramnath Rao, MD, PhD.

Papers75
Years published2002 to 2024

Dr. Cohen's papers by year, 2015 to 2024

Topics Dr. Cohen writes about most

  • Signal Transduction
  • Phosphorylation
  • Ubiquitin
  • Macrophages
  • Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
  • Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
  • I-kappa B Kinase
  • Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases

Dr. Cohen's most frequent co-authors

Recent publications by Dr. Cohen

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen received $286,351 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 351 general payments to Dr. Cohen from 12 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Education make up the largest share, 86% of the total. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. paid the most, $276,996.

General payments to Dr. Cohen by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Dr. Cohen by kind, 2016 to 2025

$286.4Kin total
  • Education$247,11486%
  • Food and beverage$19,5057%
  • Travel and lodging$10,2684%
  • Speaker and faculty fees$7,3503%
  • Other$2,1141%

Companies that paid Dr. Cohen the most, 2016 to 2025

Share is of all general payments to this clinician.

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen graduated from Boston University School of Medicine

Dr. Cohen graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 2001.

  1. Medical schoolBoston University School of Medicine

Source: Dmand AI Professional Profile Data

Sources for Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice DataDmand AI Affiliation Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Doctors and Clinicians Utilization Data (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Training, board certification and membershipsDmand AI Professional Profile Data
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's NPI number?

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's NPI number is 1043200892. It was assigned on October 24, 2005, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What kind of doctor is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen?

Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen is a general surgeon in Boston, Massachusetts. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Surgery Physician (taxonomy code 208600000X).

Where does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen practice?

Dr. Cohen practices at 575 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116. Dr. Cohen's primary practice is Bmc Affiliated Physicians, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. Dmand AI also links Dr. Cohen to 3 medical groups and 2 group practices and clinics.

What is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Dr. Cohen is (617) 789-3000.

What is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen's medical license number?

Dr. Cohen holds Massachusetts license 216577.

Which hospitals is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen affiliated with?

Dr. Cohen is affiliated with Boston Medical Center - South.

What medical group is Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen part of?

Dr. Cohen is linked to Steward Medical Group. Dmand AI links Dr. Cohen to 3 more medical groups.

Does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Dr. Cohen billed Medicare for 28 services in 2024, and Dr. Cohen accepts Medicare assignment.

Does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen offer telehealth?

Yes. The CMS Doctors and Clinicians file lists Dr. Cohen as offering telehealth services.

How many Medicare patients does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen see?

CMS counts 58 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Cohen in 2024, with an average age of 68.

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What services does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Dr. Cohen's most billed Medicare services were office visit, established patient (99213).

Where did Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen go to medical school?

Dr. Cohen graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 2001.

What drugs does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen prescribe most?

In 2024 Medicare Part D data, Dr. Cohen's most prescribed drugs by claims were Nystatin.

Has Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $286,351 in general payments to Dr. Cohen from 12 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

How long has Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen been practicing?

Dr. Cohen graduated from medical school in 2001, 25 years ago.

Does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen do research?

Dmand AI links 75 publications to Dr. Cohen, published from 2002 to 2024.

Who does Dr. Philip Alexander Cohen publish with?

Dr. Cohen's most frequent co-authors are Philip R. Cohen, MD (16 shared papers), Peter Cheung, MD (3 shared papers) and Vikram Ramnath Rao, MD, PhD (3 shared papers).

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