Rajat Sekhar, MD
Pain Medicine · Whiting, NJNPI 1598901217
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,306 of the $18,701 with a category attached, or 60.5%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 25.9% of the total. Among pain medicine clinicians in NJ 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.
Across 274 payments — averaging $68.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$3K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$3K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Abbott$438
- plus $2K from 14 others
Across 33 payments — averaging $1989.78 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boston Scientific$66K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,39440%
- Food & beverage$11,30660%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 112 | $4,841 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 41 | $3,495 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 26 | $3,101 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 19 | $3,057 |
| Nevro Corp. | 21 | $1,964 |
| Abbott | 13 | $438 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $406 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $200 |
| Corelink, LLC | 1 | $183 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $181 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 8 | $156 |
| Stryker | 2 | $117 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Intracept$8,676
- Evoke$2,099
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$1,118
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,057
- ADAPTIVESTIM$992
- Vanta$558
- Evoke SCS$456
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$423
- SYNCHROMED$378
- mild Device Kit$244
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$225
- INCEPTIV$155
- SYNCHROMEDII$137
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$126
- Senza$120
- Qutenza$115
How this compares
$18,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 256 pain medicine providers in New Jersey.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 44 | $534 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 12 | $219 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $216 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $118 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Whiting
- Samir JaniWhiting$10K
- Sean LiShrewsbury$1.2M
- Matthias WiederholzLawrenceville$853K
- Todd StitikNewark$370K
- Peter StaatsShrewsbury$286K
- Warren GraceEdison$158K
- Caitlin InnerfieldHaddonfield$97K
- Anson MoiseEnglewood$78K
- Pavli DemianSomerset$65K
- Dipan PatelClifton$50K
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.