Farbod Rastegar, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Middletown, OHNPI 1871884437
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $26,177 of the $32,033 with a category attached, or 81.7%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 27.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,954 and has fallen 51.2% since, to $3,884 in 2025.
Across 175 payments — averaging $183.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$9K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$3K
- Stryker$2K
- plus $7K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$26,17782%
- Food & beverage$5,59117%
- Entertainment$2651%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 38 | $8,750 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 21 | $4,846 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $4,086 |
| Abbott | 15 | $3,066 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 6 | $2,546 |
| Stryker | 15 | $1,941 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 9 | $1,736 |
| Corelink, LLC | 6 | $1,702 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $909 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 5 | $755 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $687 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 10 | $581 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $259 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $74 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,786
- ELSA$2,656
- Excelsius - GPS$2,281
- ACTIVL$1,603
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,467
- CREO$1,265
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,249
- UNID_PASS$1,235
- RISE$1,031
- COUGAR$909
- AERO$787
- ES2$787
- TRITANIUM$787
- SERRATO$787
- OASYS$787
- XIA$737
- RISE-L$535
- RIALTO SI FUSION SYSTEM$471
- nanoLOCK-L$186
- iFuse Implant$150
How this compares
$32,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 58 | $173 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $125 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Middletown
- Ashok BiyaniToledo$1.2M
- Jason SavageCleveland$735K
- Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
- Scot MillerAkron$404K
- Paul EichenseerWesterville$369K
- Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
- Jaideep ChunduriCincinnati$264K
- Selvon St ClairLima$168K
- Daryl SybertNew Albany$148K
- James FlemingChillicothe$128K
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.