Rajeev Dhupar
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1750559761
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $41,680 of the $64,726 with a category attached, or 64.4%. Elucent Medical accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $24,459, more than ten times the $184 reported in 2020. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in PA 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 52 payments — averaging $1244.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elucent Medical$52K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$630
- BD$433
- Davol Inc.$139
- plus $618 from 7 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $1421.43 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.
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41,68064%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,75012%
- Travel & lodging$3,9516%
- Food & beverage$3,5956%
- Education$7,75012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elucent Medical | 26 | $52,208 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $9,633 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $1,064 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $630 |
| BD | 1 | $433 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 2 | $116 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $104 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $93 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $92 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $83 |
| Abbott | 1 | $73 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$9,614
- TAGRISSO$930
- Monarch Platform$397
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$139
- Cytalux$104
- Photofrin$101
How this compares
$64,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 314 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 12 | $4 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Pittsburgh
- Inderpal SarkariaPittsburgh$248K
- Benny WekslerPittsburgh$161K
- Nicholas BakerPittsburgh$138K
- Walter McGregorPittsburgh$124K
- Robert KormosPittsburgh$53K
- David KaczorowskiPittsburgh$47K
- Hiroyuki TsukuiPittsburgh$45K
- Hiran FernandoPittsburgh$34K
- Stephen BaileyPittsburgh$33K
- Joseph BavariaAllentown$1.7M
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.