Has Prashant Rajan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,766 in general payments to Prashant Rajan, MD across 62 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Prashant Rajan, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Prashant Rajan, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Prashant Rajan, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1760987986

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.8%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,177 and has fallen 82.0% since, to $750 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $9,469.

$8,766in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $141.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Medtronic$1K
Globus Medical$669
Cerapedics Inc.$517
Zimmer Biomet$453
plus $337 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,28037%
Food & beverage$4,80355%
Education$6848%

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
Stryker	21	$3,168
Alphatec Spine, Inc	8	$2,389
Medtronic	8	$1,233
Globus Medical	14	$669
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$517
Zimmer Biomet	3	$453
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	2	$284
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$38
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$16

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.

Other - Miscellaneous$2,170
AERO-LL$1,033
N/A$818
CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$685
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$444
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$301
UNID_PASS$225
Comprehensive Shoulder System$189
ROSA$185
YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$175
INSIGNIA$172
ACP$166
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$166
CAYMAN PLATE SYSTEM$164
SERRATO$161
MAZOR X SYSTEM$159
RELINE$142
SafeOp$134
ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$105

How this compares

$8,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$20,110

Medicare patients

Services billed

199

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	31	$159
Methocarbamol	24	$144
Meloxicam	37	$101
Methylprednisolone	15	$87
Tizanidine Hcl	20	$59
Tramadol Hcl	12	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Cleveland

Jason SavageCleveland$735K
Jerold GurleyCleveland$649K
Haariss IlyasCleveland$314K
Saad ChaudharyCleveland$84K
Zachary GordonCleveland$73K
Taylor PaziukCleveland$32K
Jonathan BeldingCleveland$15K
Bilal ButtCleveland$13K
Emily HuCleveland$9K
Christina ChengCleveland$3K

See the full list for Ohio →

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.

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