Rahul Sood, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Worcester, MANPI 1780979609
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,517 of the $9,080 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,931 and has fallen 52.1% since, to $2,840 in 2025.
Across 30 payments — averaging $302.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Pulmonx Corporation$1K
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$167
- AbbVie$44
- Johnson & Johnson$15
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,88832%
- Food & beverage$5856%
- Education$5,51761%
- Gifts$901%
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 | 18 | $7,658 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 6 | $1,183 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $167 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,254
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$1,115
- ALIYA SYSTEM$167
How this compares
$9,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 482 pulmonary disease providers in Massachusetts.
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 pulmonary disease in Worcester
- Yaron GoldmanWorcester$843K
- Fernando MartinezWorcester$375K
- Abdo KatayaWorcester$16K
- Sandeep SomalarajuWorcester$15K
- Kevin MartinWorcester$14K
- Sarah GrantBrookline$678K
- Erik FolchBoston$543K
- Bartolome CelliBoston$536K
- Ana CojocaruFall River$364K
- Adnan MajidBoston$351K
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.