Divyesh Bhakta, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Louisville, KYNPI 1083640528
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,983 of the $16,890 with a category attached, or 70.9%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.7%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,353 and has fallen 66.7% since, to $2,113 in 2025.
Across 204 payments — averaging $82.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Medicure Pharma Inc.$700
- plus $4K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7004%
- Travel & lodging$4,18825%
- Food & beverage$11,98371%
- Education$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 55 | $3,842 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $2,624 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 31 | $2,451 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 21 | $2,136 |
| Abbott | 19 | $1,482 |
| Medicure Pharma Inc. | 2 | $700 |
| Teleflex LLC | 8 | $654 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $505 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $374 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $292 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $209 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $184 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $178 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $100 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $57 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $35 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Osprey Medical Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 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.
- Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System$1,653
- Resolute$1,287
- GLIDESHEATH SLENDER$1,011
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$885
- METACROSS OTW$742
- AngioJet Ultra 5000A$506
- AVVIGO Guidance System$498
- Diamondback Coronary$433
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$407
- Aggrastat (tirofiban HCl)$400
- Impella$353
- Acute cardiovascular care$300
- FFRangio$276
- GlideWire$264
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$250
- CoreValve Evolut$236
- FARXIGA$230
- TURNPIKE$191
- Vascular Lithotripsy$172
- EKOSONIC$169
How this compares
$16,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 129 interventional cardiology providers in Kentucky.
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 interventional cardiology in Louisville
- Daniel StewartLouisville$290K
- Daniel RothschildLouisville$154K
- Naresh SolankhiLouisville$132K
- Ravi SharmaLouisville$86K
- Christopher SemderLouisville$50K
- Sadip PantLouisville$43K
- Michael FlahertyLouisville$42K
- Prafull RahejaLouisville$27K
- Faraaz RahmanLouisville$22K
- Hussayn AlrayesLouisville$21K
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.