Chetan Velagapudi, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Merrillville, INNPI 1821520198
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,974 of the $4,660 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 54.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,064 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $84 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $6,581.
Across 34 payments — averaging $137.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$387
- Medtronic$350
- Boston Scientific$117
- Abbott$113
- plus $103 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,97464%
- Food & beverage$1,44631%
- Education$2395%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 10 | $2,546 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $1,043 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 6 | $387 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $350 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $117 |
| Abbott | 2 | $113 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 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.
- Indigo System$2,372
- Azurion 7 B20$1,017
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$173
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$173
How this compares
$4,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 74 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Indiana.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Merrillville
- Nazar GolewaleMerrillville$224K
- Rajiv KumarMerrillville$12K
- Paul TimpermanWest Lafayette$1.3M
- Daniel SahleinCarmel$845K
- Sabah ButtyMishawaka$275K
- Jeffrey RamkaransinghIndianapolis$274K
- Brandon MartinezFishers$226K
- Kannan NatarajanIndianapolis$188K
- Katharine KrolLafayette$155K
- Matthew JohnsonIndianapolis$92K
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.