Venkat Rapuri, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Arlington, TXNPI 1043415250
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 222 payments — averaging $297.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$52K
- Linkbio Corp$7K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$629
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$567
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$38,70059%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,80016%
- Travel & lodging$7,07711%
- Food & beverage$9,43814%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 58 | $51,900 |
| Linkbio Corp | 14 | $7,250 |
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $1,153 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,143 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 40 | $629 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 6 | $567 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 8 | $470 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $394 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $270 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $229 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $195 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $153 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $130 |
| G21 SRL | 1 | $106 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $104 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $92 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Vertex | 2 | $57 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 2 | $56 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $56 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $44 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Axogen | 1 | $35 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $32 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $29 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Legacy Stelkast Knee$15,127
- Genflex2 Total Knee System$13,800
- Cementless Knee$9,000
- ACTIFY 3D$3,252
- Actify$798
- TWINFIX$661
- Joints - Prototype$542
- Total Knee Arthroplasty$450
- CHIMAERA HIP FRACTURE SYSTEM - TROCANTERIC NAILING SYSTEM$357
- COLUMBUS AS REVISION$331
- Stelkast-GENGLEX2 PS$279
- MAKO$277
- TRIATHLON$275
- Joint Arthoplasty$236
- PALACOS$158
- Proven Gen-Flex PS Knee System$156
- InSet System$151
- Stelkast - GENFLEX2$150
- ACCOLADE$149
- Distal Femur Plate System$144
How this compares
$66,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 151 | $1,945 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 25 | $486 |
| Celecoxib | 24 | $479 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 16 | $339 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Arlington
- Mark KazewychArlington$893K
- Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
- Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
- J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
- Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
- Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
- Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
- Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
- Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M
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.