Nilin Rao, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Austin, TXNPI 1689107450
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 246 payments — averaging $95.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$8K
- Stryker$4K
- Impactortho, Inc.$3K
- Medline Industries LP$1K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Medartis Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,03626%
- Food & beverage$7,86233%
- Education$9,71141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 33 | $8,222 |
| Stryker | 51 | $3,664 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 12 | $2,562 |
| Medline Industries LP | 9 | $1,366 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 5 | $1,190 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $1,167 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $766 |
| Abbott | 21 | $572 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 16 | $555 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 3 | $541 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $371 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $320 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $318 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $306 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $228 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $165 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $147 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $139 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $114 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $93 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $79 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $51 |
| Core Surgical Group | 2 | $48 |
| International Life Sciences | 1 | $32 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $25 |
| Voom Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Reprise Biomedical, 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.
- PROstep$1,938
- APTUS$1,167
- HemiCAP$744
- Apligraf$371
- Dermagraft$371
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$371
- PROCLAIM$267
- CITREFIX$158
- DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$134
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$128
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS DYNANITE OTHER$124
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS DYNANITE HAMMERTOE$124
- DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS DYNANITE STAPLES$124
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$121
- LINVATEC EXTREMITIES$118
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$117
How this compares
$23,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 684 foot & ankle surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Econazole Nitrate | 17 | $429 |
| Gabapentin | 45 | $182 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 11 | $163 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $108 |
| Ketoconazole | 13 | $107 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $106 |
| Meloxicam | 22 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Austin
- Mark DaltonAustin$4.1M
- Mark RobsonAustin$957K
- Craig ThomajanAustin$145K
- Andrew EbertAustin$82K
- Pedro CosculluelaAustin$69K
- Richard PollakSan Antonio$6.1M
- Joseph CaporussoMcAllen$6M
- William McGarveyKaty$3.5M
- Eugene CurryDallas$3.1M
- Chad HowzeSan Antonio$2.4M
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.