Paulinder Rai, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Brightwaters, NYNPI 1568604478
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,225 of the $8,798 with a category attached, or 82.1%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,685 and has fallen 79.3% since, to $764 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 222 payments — averaging $39.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$634
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$466
- Misonix Inc$434
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1261%
- Travel & lodging$1,44716%
- Food & beverage$7,22582%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $2,567 |
| Smith+Nephew | 56 | $1,331 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 47 | $1,147 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 19 | $634 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 17 | $466 |
| Misonix Inc | 22 | $434 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $340 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $261 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 2 | $249 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $245 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $243 |
| Bioventus LLC | 7 | $152 |
| Abbott | 1 | $136 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $96 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $56 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $38 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- SYNCHROMED$1,094
- LIORESAL$459
- GEMTESA$249
- DYSPORT$247
- ACTIVAC$245
- SNAP$245
- LOKELMA$245
- NUEDEXTA$243
- Apligraf$241
- DALVANCE$238
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$159
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$141
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$136
- Dermagraft$126
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$126
- PuraPly$125
- VAC VERAFLO$120
- Santyl$118
- AQUACEL AG$107
- MYSTIM$103
How this compares
$8,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 872 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | 85 | $1,314 |
| Gabapentin | 43 | $855 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 20 | $484 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 27 | $373 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 14 | $361 |
| Mupirocin | 41 | $281 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $121 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 30 | $98 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $77 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 19 | $71 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Brightwaters
- Heidi FuscoNew York$153K
- Geraldine DapulRochester$77K
- Michael OdellNew York$67K
- Craig AntellNew York$65K
- Michael StubblefieldNew York$53K
- Heakyung KimNew York$53K
- Jeffrey BazarianRochester$47K
- Martin SchaefferLiverpool$41K
- Michael CicchettiWilliamsville$36K
- Russell SilverNew York$34K
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.