Tejas Parikh, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Gastonia, NCNPI 1992909402
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,228 of the $13,799 with a category attached, or 74.1%. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 32.2% of the total. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NC 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.
Across 220 payments — averaging $62.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$4K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$846
- Globus Medical$577
- Radius Health, Inc.$442
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,57126%
- Food & beverage$10,22874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 42 | $4,443 |
| Boston Scientific | 69 | $3,296 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 19 | $2,396 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $846 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $577 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 11 | $442 |
| Stryker | 6 | $372 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 2 | $207 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 7 | $193 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $99 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Abbott | 2 | $84 |
| Vertex | 3 | $81 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Myoscience Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $30 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kinex Medical Company LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- Evoke$2,126
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$1,975
- Senza$1,249
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$957
- Omnia$769
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$737
- Intracept$423
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$333
- INTELLIS$320
- mild Device Kit$254
- Tymlos$237
- INCEPTIV$158
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$114
- OPTABLATE$110
- Nimbus$108
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$102
How this compares
$13,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 93 | $16,043 |
| Gabapentin | 542 | $5,734 |
| Celecoxib | 109 | $2,254 |
| Pregabalin | 102 | $1,905 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 214 | $1,859 |
| Lidocaine | 15 | $1,742 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 109 | $1,588 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 234 | $1,404 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 48 | $1,029 |
| Methocarbamol | 56 | $702 |
| Fentanyl | 12 | $672 |
| Naproxen | 25 | $325 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $265 |
| Meloxicam | 79 | $244 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $243 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Gastonia
- Herman GoreGastonia$3K
- Kirsten D AmoreGastonia$2K
- Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
- Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
- Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
- Krishna BhatSanford$30K
- Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
- Jimmy MaliDurham$20K
- Jerome WatsonStatesville$15K
- Christopher GodboutCary$12K
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.