Has Anila Rao received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $57,237 in general payments to Anila Rao across 428 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 Anila Rao 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 Anila Rao 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.

Anila Rao

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Kansas City, KSNPI 1730675687

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (38.2%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 39.6% of the total.

$57,237in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 428 payments — averaging $133.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$23K
Medtronic$12K
Boston Scientific$9K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
plus $7K from 33 others

What the payments were for

Grants$21,88338%
Travel & lodging$15,56127%
Food & beverage$18,23832%
Education$1,5553%

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
Abbott	111	$22,668
Medtronic	63	$12,262
Boston Scientific	35	$9,420
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	20	$2,619
Biosense Webster, Inc.	26	$2,122
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	26	$1,098
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	15	$876
Biotronik Inc.	7	$665
Abiomed	14	$584
Inari Medical, Inc.	6	$552
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	10	$454
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	33	$453
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	3	$433
Cvrx, Inc.	2	$294
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	4	$277
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$229
Amgen	5	$201
AstraZeneca	5	$189
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$167
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$155
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$141
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$141
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$133
ZOLL Circulation Inc	3	$130
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$129
EKOS Corporation	1	$106
Philips North America LLC	1	$101
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$96
Pfizer	5	$96
Novartis	5	$93
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$87
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$83
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$36
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	1	$30
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$27
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$23
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$14
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13

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.

Carto 3$3,455
ENSITE$3,200
ENSITE PRECISION$2,559
TACTICATH$2,250
ASSURITY$2,250
AVEIR$1,619
Farapulse$1,466
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$517
Assure WCD$456
OPTIMIZER$437
CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$306
Barostim Neo System$294
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$287
WATCHMAN Access System$277
Confirm Rx$266
QDOT MICRO Catheter$253
Impella$252
Diamondback Coronary$242
Rhythmia Mapping System$168
Diamondback Peripheral$160

How this compares

$57,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Kansas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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