Has Raj Kullar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,624 in general payments to Raj Kullar, MD across 77 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 Raj Kullar, 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 Raj Kullar, 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.

Raj Kullar, MD

Sports Medicine · Los Gatos, CANPI 1154583722

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,624in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $150.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$7K
Evolution Surgical, Inc$2K
Stryker$2K
Smith+Nephew$555
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$18

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$4,50039%
Travel & lodging$2,44021%
Food & beverage$3,48330%
Education$1,20010%

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
Arthrex	32	$7,121
Evolution Surgical, Inc	14	$1,984
Stryker	19	$1,946
Smith+Nephew	11	$555
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18

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

$11,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$379,415

Medicare patients

616

Services billed

9,711

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
Celecoxib	18	$518
Gabapentin	50	$478
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$93
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$81
Tramadol Hcl	22	$54
Meloxicam	14	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in Los Gatos

Nathaniel CohenLos Gatos$6.4M
Samir SharmaLos Gatos$860K
Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
Thomas KnappSanta Monica$2.5M
Seth ShermanStanford$1.8M
Michael FreehillStanford$1.7M
Deryk JonesSan Carlos$1.6M
Allan MishraMenlo Park$1.5M
Heinz Hoeneckela Jolla$1.4M
Marc SafranPalo Alto$1.2M

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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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