Karthik Rajasekaran, MD
Otolaryngology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1841589629
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 16 payments — averaging $222.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Provepharm Inc.$3K
- BD$400
- Covidien LP$350
- Intuitive Surgical$58
- Lifenet Health$46
- Johnson & Johnson$37
- plus $61 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,95083%
- Speaking & faculty fees$40011%
- Food & beverage$1865%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Provepharm Inc. | 2 | $2,600 |
| BD | 1 | $400 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $350 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $58 |
| Lifenet Health | 5 | $46 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $37 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$3,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 456 otolaryngology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $308 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 22 | $284 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in Philadelphia
- Nancy SnydermanPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph CurryPhiladelphia$2M
- John GermillerPhiladelphia$825K
- Adam LuginbuhlPhiladelphia$745K
- David KennedyPhiladelphia$603K
- Richard SterlingPhiladelphia$378K
- Mauritis BoonPhiladelphia$363K
- James PalmerPhiladelphia$331K
- Ken KazahayaPhiladelphia$254K
- Erica ThalerPhiladelphia$244K
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.