RxDoctor Payments Data

Prashant Kelkar, DO

Neurological Surgery · Southfield, MINPI 1053536755

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,000 of the $22,826 with a category attached, or 78.9%. Stryker accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,309, 6.9 times the $1,927 reported in 2019.

$22,826in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $400.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$19K
  • Zimmer Biomet$1K
  • Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$961
  • Nevro Corp.$575
  • Medtronic$352
  • Alphatec Spine, Inc$295
  • plus $1K from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$18,00079%
  • Travel & lodging$1,7368%
  • Food & beverage$3,07013%
  • Education$200%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$22,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 256 neurological surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$312,935
Medicare patients
381
Services billed
1,173

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Methocarbamol63$574
Gabapentin75$438
Methylprednisolone62$400
Ibuprofen50$299
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen32$249
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate29$238
Baclofen11$207
Oxycodone Hcl42$204
Nortriptyline Hcl27$187
Pregabalin15$144
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen15$103
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl11$76
Diazepam26$55
Meloxicam15$42
Tramadol Hcl15$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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