Has Sripad Dhawlikar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,111 in general payments to Sripad Dhawlikar, MD across 128 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 Sripad Dhawlikar, 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 Sripad Dhawlikar, 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.

Sripad Dhawlikar, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Toms River, NJNPI 1659327898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,513 and has fallen 79.2% since, to $731 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $6,857.

$6,111in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $47.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$543
Nevro Corp.$506
Stryker$351
Boston Scientific$327
Si-bone, Inc.$260
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$2,50041%
Food & beverage$3,61159%

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
Medtronic	27	$2,996
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	11	$543
Nevro Corp.	27	$506
Stryker	6	$351
Boston Scientific	3	$327
Si-bone, Inc.	8	$260
Globus Medical(2 entities)	18	$247
Abbott	11	$221
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$179
BD	1	$121
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$59
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$48
Smith+Nephew	2	$40
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$37
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$35
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$29
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$29
Kerecis Limited	1	$28
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$25
Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc.	1	$17
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$15

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

$6,111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,020,132

Medicare patients

852

Services billed

23,949

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	93	$974
Meloxicam	276	$921
Celecoxib	31	$852
Tramadol Hcl	284	$586
Oxycodone Hcl	17	$534
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	117	$528
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	57	$452
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	34	$301
Cephalexin	92	$177
Methylprednisolone	25	$137
Lorazepam	102	$101
Clindamycin Hcl	16	$56
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Toms River

Justin KubeckToms River$309K
Matthew MichelToms River$11K
Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
Ki HwangWayne$147K

See the full list for New Jersey →

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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