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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,602 in general payments to Raj Sureja, MD across 120 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 Sureja, 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 Sureja, 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 Sureja, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Newport News, VANPI 1912967746

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,155 and has fallen 73.7% since, to $1,881 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$22,602in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $188.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$18K
Medtronic$2K
MML US, Inc.$1K
Painteq LLC$404
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$172
Nevro Corp.$150
plus $322 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,6007%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,53855%
Travel & lodging$2,0159%
Food & beverage$6,44929%

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
Boston Scientific	71	$18,023
Medtronic(2 entities)	30	$2,469
MML US, Inc.	5	$1,061
Painteq LLC	4	$404
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$172
Nevro Corp.	2	$150
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$141
Vertex	1	$120
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$32
Stryker	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	1	$12

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.

SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$5,973
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$4,945
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$2,011
ReActiv8$816
INTELLIS$800
GENERAL - THERAPIES$800
ADAPTIVESTIM$518
PAINTEQ$377
RESTORE$255
mild Device Kit$141
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$127
JOURNAVX$120
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$117
GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$114
Superion Indirect Decompression System$108
Evoke$105

How this compares

$22,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 52 interventional pain medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$755,719

Medicare patients

655

Services billed

37,930

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	67	$3,738
Lidocaine	35	$2,532
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	108	$2,233
Gabapentin	132	$1,678
Pregabalin	37	$1,120
Fentanyl	14	$929
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	54	$807
Diclofenac Sodium	18	$748
Tizanidine Hcl	23	$511
Hydromorphone Hcl	18	$430
Tramadol Hcl	57	$428
Duloxetine Hcl	24	$366
Methocarbamol	31	$322
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	24	$254
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	18	$207

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Newport News

Che TorryNewport News$48K
Jenny AndrusNewport News$4K
Ketan PatelHaymarket$133K
Niteesh BhararaReston$25K
Sassan HassassianManassas$24K
Benjamin SeemanRichmond$21K
Alok GopalWinchester$16K
Jacob LeeWinchester$14K
Yaoming GuRichmond$13K
Rae DavisLansdowne$12K

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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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