Prakash Paragi, MD
Surgery · Livingston, NJNPI 1598992380
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (34.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,122 and has fallen 82.6% since, to $1,933 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 120 payments — averaging $158.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Medtronic$2K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$774
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5008%
- Travel & lodging$5,14627%
- Food & beverage$5,84331%
- Education$6,50034%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 44 | $10,496 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $1,752 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $1,500 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,164 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 4 | $1,002 |
| Stryker | 2 | $774 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $473 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $436 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $302 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $264 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $112 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $97 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $43 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $33 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,658
- EXPAREL$1,500
- Resolution 360 Clip$682
- Signia$677
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$387
- 1788$387
- SEAMGUARD$344
- Phasix Mesh$264
- FLOSEAL$262
- TISSEEL$262
- EEA$159
- WATCHMAN FLX$150
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$137
- Saxenda$121
- Wegovy$117
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$113
- HARMONIC Product Family$113
- Monoferric$109
- BiZact$106
How this compares
$19,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 593 surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Topiramate | 12 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Livingston
- Saniea MajidLivingston$40K
- Robert PerezHainesport$2M
- Eric WhitmanMorristown$848K
- Jarrod KaufmanBrick$474K
- Amit TrivediParamus$242K
- Young HongCamden$203K
- Harvey RainvilleGlen Ridge$159K
- Harrison CotlerOakhurst$149K
- Francis PrevitiNorth Field$131K
- David DupreeTinton Falls$124K
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.