Gurpreet Bajaj, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1255373619
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,194 of the $27,061 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Stryker accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $18,947 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $2,134 in 2025.
Across 140 payments — averaging $193.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$24K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Amgen$502
- Johnson & Johnson$252
- Pylant Medical$153
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$143
- plus $620 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,19467%
- Travel & lodging$1,6046%
- Food & beverage$7,26427%
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 | 77 | $24,235 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $1,156 |
| Amgen | 16 | $502 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $252 |
| Pylant Medical | 3 | $153 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $143 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $106 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Vertex | 2 | $42 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $34 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $30 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$27,061 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 86 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ProliaDenosumab | 25 | $44,204 |
| EliquisApixaban | 25 | $14,001 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 486 | $5,539 |
| Methocarbamol | 230 | $3,344 |
| Methylprednisolone | 126 | $1,260 |
| Celecoxib | 60 | $1,168 |
| Gabapentin | 50 | $546 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 46 | $505 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 104 | $483 |
| Meloxicam | 213 | $477 |
| Cephalexin | 78 | $466 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 24 | $358 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 81 | $343 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 33 | $312 |
| Ibuprofen | 20 | $259 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AmgenProlia | $502 | $44,20425 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 70th percentile of 86 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Fort Worth
- Steven WeedenFort Worth$370K
- Marcus FordFort Worth$296K
- Steven OgdenFort Worth$36K
- Joel DennisonFort Worth$13K
- Tyler GoldbergAustin$4.6M
- Antonia ChenDallas$3.8M
- John BarringtonPlano$2.2M
- Roger EmersonPlano$691K
- Donald HohmanDallas$537K
- Raul MarquezEdinburg$278K
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.