Has Rajiv Goel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,007 in general payments to Rajiv Goel, MD across 22 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 Rajiv Goel, 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 Rajiv Goel, 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.

Rajiv Goel, MD

Hand Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1831196583

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 39.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,096 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $219 in 2025.

$6,007in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $273.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Axogen$2K
Exactech, Inc.$2K
Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
Zimmer Biomet$288
Davol Inc.$216
Trimed, Inc.$149
plus $252 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,36839%
Food & beverage$2,43841%
Education$1,20020%

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
Axogen	5	$2,384
Exactech, Inc.	4	$1,518
Summit Surgical Corp.	1	$1,200
Zimmer Biomet	3	$288
Davol Inc.	2	$216
Trimed, Inc.	1	$149
Invictus Surgical Incorporated	1	$119
Medartis Inc.	3	$56
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$53
Linvatec Corporation	1	$24

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.

How this compares

$6,007 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 75 hand surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$15,486

Medicare patients

Services billed

200

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 hand surgery in Seattle

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Chelsea BoeSeattle$32K
Eric PangSeattle$3K
Stephen KennedySeattle$2K
Eugene FarngSeattle$1K
Sarah BeshlianSeattle$1K
William WagnerSeattle$220
John BuckmillerSeattle$165
Thomas TrumbleBellevue$824K
Mary ThayerBellevue$51K

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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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