Has Avani Rao, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,070 in general payments to Avani Rao, MD across 22 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Avani Rao, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Avani Rao, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Avani Rao, MD

Radiation Oncology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1295006567

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,750 of the $10,070 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. accounts for 68.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,920 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $164 in 2025. Among radiation oncology clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$10,070in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $457.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$7K
IBA Proton Therapy, Inc.$2K
Sirtex Medical Inc$335
Novocure Inc.$167
Novartis$137
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$94
plus $243 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,75067%
Travel & lodging$2,09621%
Food & beverage$1,22412%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$6,917
IBA Proton Therapy, Inc.	2	$2,176
Sirtex Medical Inc	3	$335
Novocure Inc.	2	$167
Novartis	2	$137
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$94
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$90
Bioprotect Medical, Inc.	2	$46
Accuray Incorporated	1	$44
Teleflex LLC	1	$42
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	1	$21

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

SIR-Spheres Microspheres$299
Optune$122

How this compares

$10,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 108 radiation oncology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$237,490

Medicare patients

647

Services billed

2,443

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

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Danny SongBaltimore$32K
Jason MolitorisBaltimore$26K
Kristin RedmondBaltimore$17K
Amanda WalkerBaltimore$9K
Christopher JohnsonBaltimore$7K
Russell HalesBaltimore$7K
Harry QuonBaltimore$4K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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