Basavaraj Ghodke, MD
Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1336269265
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,589 and has fallen 59.6% since, to $2,660 in 2025.
Across 164 payments — averaging $93.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$3K
- Balt USA, LLC$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Rapid Medical Ltd$2K
- Medtronic$782
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1200.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,78825%
- Travel & lodging$4,71331%
- Food & beverage$6,78544%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 64 | $4,447 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $2,815 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 14 | $2,157 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 39 | $2,145 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 9 | $1,793 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 13 | $782 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 12 | $597 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 2 | $268 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $34 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$5,166
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$2,815
- Penumbra System$2,537
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$2,351
- TIGERTRIEVER 17 REVASCULARIZATION DEVICE$1,630
- COMANECI 17$1,630
- SURPASS EVOLVE$1,250
- Optima Coil System$992
- Carrier Delivery Catheter$472
- CATALYST$468
- Pipeline$418
- Penumbra Jet 7$373
- TREVO$361
- SPINEJACK$326
- CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System$268
- Penumbra SMART Coil$259
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$155
- BOBBY$148
- PULSERIDER$124
- TRUFILL$124
How this compares
$15,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.
Medicare billing
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.
Other neurological surgery in Seattle
- Rod OskouianSeattle$2.4M
- Christoph HofstetterSeattle$768K
- Stephen MonteithSeattle$151K
- Jean-Christophe LevequeSeattle$120K
- Vijay YanamadalaSeattle$85K
- Hoan Vu TranSeattle$78K
- Martin RutkowskiSeattle$62K
- Bailey ZampellaSeattle$38K
- Melanie WalkerSeattle$38K
- Elias EliasSeattle$35K
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.