Puneet Aggarwal, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Charlotte, NCNPI 1437243680
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,978 of the $2,487 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Peerless Surgical Inc. accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,096 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $263 in 2025.
Across 11 payments — averaging $226.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$178
- Boston Scientific$145
- Amgen$118
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$48
- Halozyme Inc$20
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$50920%
- Education$1,97880%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $1,978 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $178 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $145 |
| Amgen | 1 | $118 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $48 |
| Halozyme 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.
How this compares
$2,487 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 303 | $3,267 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 91 | $1,968 |
| Lidocaine | 18 | $1,814 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 198 | $1,743 |
| Baclofen | 57 | $1,112 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 42 | $726 |
| Pregabalin | 86 | $722 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 21 | $466 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 49 | $393 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $143 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $99 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $55 |
| Diazepam | 28 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Charlotte
- Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
- Peter BaileyCharlotte$10K
- Usman AhmadCharlotte$8K
- Sharon KanelosCharlotte$5K
- Michael DoveCharlotte$4K
- Kelly CrawfordCharlotte$2K
- Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
- Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
- Krishna BhatSanford$30K
- Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
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.