Raj Thakrar, MD
Neurological Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1427410620
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $14,125 of the $20,825 with a category attached, or 67.8%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,020, more than ten times the $109 reported in 2021.
Across 129 payments — averaging $161.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
- Spineart USA Inc$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$2K
- plus $4K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$14,12568%
- Food & beverage$6,69932%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 38 | $4,615 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 10 | $3,889 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 8 | $2,785 |
| Globus Medical | 18 | $2,250 |
| Stryker | 26 | $1,863 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 3 | $1,798 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,346 |
| Synthes GmbH | 2 | $1,007 |
| VB Spine LLC | 11 | $872 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $126 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $58 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$3,702
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$2,271
- aprevo$1,768
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,166
- Lattus$1,161
- N/A$996
- Excelsius - GPS$696
- UNID_PASS$175
- CAPTIVATE$169
- Invictus MIS$154
- CREO$138
- Excelsius Deformity$138
- NA$134
- DURAMATRIX$134
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$134
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$131
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$127
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$122
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$116
- Cervical-STIM$115
How this compares
$20,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 37 neurological surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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 neurological surgery in Providence
- Albert TelfeianProvidence$148K
- Clark ChenProvidence$104K
- Tianyi NiuProvidence$72K
- Radmehr TorabiProvidence$45K
- Theresa WilliamsonProvidence$45K
- Ki-Eun ChangProvidence$40K
- Prakash SampathProvidence$37K
- Adetokunbo OyeleseProvidence$22K
- Oluwaseun AkinduroProvidence$9K
- Jonathan NakhlaProvidence$8K
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.