Has Rajeev Garapati, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $319,211 in general payments to Rajeev Garapati, MD across 177 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 Rajeev Garapati, 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 Rajeev Garapati, 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.

Rajeev Garapati, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Morton Grove, ILNPI 1184678823

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $222,593 of the $319,211 with a category attached, or 69.7%. Arthrex accounts for 69.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$319,211in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $1803.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Arthrex$223K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$44K
Stryker$25K
Globus Medical$21K
Synthes GmbH$4K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
plus $244 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$222,59370%
Consulting fees$68,18321%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,5004%
Travel & lodging$11,0323%
Food & beverage$4,9032%

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	28	$222,593
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	39	$43,609
Stryker	19	$25,174
Globus Medical	40	$20,930
Synthes GmbH	3	$4,463
Johnson & Johnson	43	$2,198
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc	2	$132
Smith+Nephew	1	$49
Osteomed LLC	1	$43
Joint Active Systems, Inc.	1	$20

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.

ARTHREX$758,358
NA$61,217
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE ANKLE FRACTURE$39,891
DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS DEVICE SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS MIDFOOT INSTRUMENT$39,891
DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS DEVICE SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS HINDFOOT & ANKLE$39,891
TFN-Advance$30,815
VARIAX$19,574
Foot System$15,675
DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS TRAUMA HINDFOOT & ANKLE TRAUMA$15,287
DISTAL EXTREMITIES INSTRUMENTS FOOT & ANKLE MIDFOOT INSTRUMENTS$15,287
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS TRAUMA ANKLE FRACTURE$15,287
TFN ADVANCED$11,762
IM NAILS$9,675
ORTHOPEDIC CABLE / PERIPROSTHETIC SYSTEM$9,675
AR-8963S$7,408
EXTREMITIES & TRAUMA INSTRUMENTS SMALL BONE TRAUMA HINDFOOT & ANKLE TRAUMA$7,041
PRIME SERIES$3,073
Ankle Fracture System$1,842
T2$1,800
Clavicular Fracture Fixation$1,343

How this compares

$319,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$362,692

Medicare patients

736

Services billed

1,579

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
Meloxicam	93	$304
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	28	$253
Tramadol Hcl	31	$95
Methylprednisolone	15	$79
Cephalexin	17	$76
Amoxicillin	11	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Morton Grove

Wayne GoldsteinMorton Grove$4.9M
Ritesh ShahMorton Grove$2.3M
Steven MardjetkoMorton Grove$288K
Peter BonuttiEffingham$24.3M
Steven HaddadGlenview$12.6M
Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
Treg BrownHerrin$6.6M
Steven ChudikWestmont$4.1M
Matthew SquireAurora$2.9M
David ManningBurr Ridge$2.3M

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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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