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Firas Rafati, DO

Pain Medicine · Wheaton, ILNPI 1942655949

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,719in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $31.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Nevro Corp.$588
  • Boston Scientific$210
  • Abbott$188
  • Medtronic$153
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$135
  • Stryker$77
  • plus $368 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,719100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$1,719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$542,340
Medicare patients
616
Services billed
5,529

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Mesalamine DrMesalamine21$6,794
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl11$5,521
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl21$1,792
Baclofen28$1,181
Gabapentin48$1,170
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine23$899
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen46$798
Pregabalin36$757
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide21$481
Duloxetine Hcl34$418
Tamsulosin Hcl20$347
Levothyroxine Sodium21$278
Omeprazole20$245
Metoprolol Tartrate25$208
Prednisone20$205

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca$135$5,52111 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.

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