Has Rahul Subbarayan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,035 in general payments to Rahul Subbarayan, MD across 24 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 Rahul Subbarayan, 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 Rahul Subbarayan, 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.

Rahul Subbarayan, MD

Otolaryngology · Appleton, WINPI 1801281415

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 83.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $999 and has fallen 63.1% since, to $369 in 2025.

$2,035in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $84.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
Acclarent, Inc$106
Aerin Medical Inc.$63
Stryker$59
Medtronic$47
GSK$34
plus $21 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$96347%
Food & beverage$1,07253%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	13	$1,705
Acclarent, Inc	4	$106
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$63
Stryker	2	$59
Medtronic	2	$47
GSK	1	$34
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21

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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$1,150
Inspire$267

How this compares

$2,035 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 168 otolaryngology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$39,158

Medicare patients

140

Services billed

1,090

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
Azelastine Hcl	55	$2,317
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	15	$1,828
Ipratropium Bromide	18	$1,152
Fluticasone Propionate	35	$789
Ofloxacin	14	$351
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	12	$185
Famotidine	14	$176
Omeprazole	11	$171
Mupirocin	27	$166
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	17	$161
Methylprednisolone	16	$116
Prednisone	34	$111
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$87

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Steven SperryGreenfield$13K
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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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