Raghu Pulluru, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Plainfield, ILNPI 1447269915
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (54.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medwest Associates at 56.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,548 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $378 in 2025.
Across 70 payments — averaging $94.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medwest Associates$4K
- Smith+Nephew$786
- Arthrex$617
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$480
- Stryker$182
- Zimmer Biomet$155
- plus $625 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2344%
- Food & beverage$2,76042%
- Education$3,60055%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medwest Associates | 6 | $3,748 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $786 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $617 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 8 | $480 |
| Stryker | 4 | $182 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $155 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $154 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $68 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $63 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Bayer | 1 | $26 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $23 |
| Surgenex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
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
$6,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Plainfield
- Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
- Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
- Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
- Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
- Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
- David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M
- Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
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.