Rishi Goel, MD
Neurological Surgery · Westlake, OHNPI 1881891281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,875 of the $55,890 with a category attached, or 80.3%. Stryker accounts for 98.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $54,837 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $785 in 2025.
Across 68 payments — averaging $821.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$55K
- Globus Medical$392
- Medtronic$229
- EBI, LLC$164
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$128
- Boston Scientific$40
- plus $34 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$44,87580%
- Travel & lodging$9,37417%
- Food & beverage$1,6223%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 48 | $54,904 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $392 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $229 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $164 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $40 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$55,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 153 | $1,518 |
| Gabapentin | 132 | $1,283 |
| Naproxen | 98 | $723 |
| Pregabalin | 25 | $408 |
| Methylprednisolone | 26 | $130 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Westlake
- Abdi MohitCleveland$884K
- William ZerickWesterville$778K
- Christian BonassoColumbus$656K
- Russell LonserColumbus$419K
- Zachary TempelCincinnati$351K
- Jamal TahaCenterville$341K
- Chris KarasColumbus$339K
- Kamal WoodsMiamisburg$268K
- David XuColumbus$263K
- Michael KachmannCincinnati$247K
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.