Ganesh Raveendran, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1265418420
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (35.5%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 28.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,944 and has fallen 82.9% since, to $1,186 in 2025.
Across 160 payments — averaging $87.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Ancora Heart, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$677
- plus $1K from 14 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $1597.80 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$32K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,30031%
- Travel & lodging$4,57433%
- Food & beverage$4,96836%
- Education$1451%
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 | 26 | $4,043 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 26 | $3,096 |
| Abbott | 16 | $1,808 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 3 | $1,574 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 35 | $1,300 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 5 | $677 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 7 | $420 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 7 | $321 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $269 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 15 | $145 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $142 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $65 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $13 |
| Heraeus Medical Components, LLC | 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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$2,250
- AccuCinch$1,574
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,304
- HeartMate Touch$1,050
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$516
- Artis pheno$448
- AVVIGO Guidance System$262
- MitraClip$180
- AngioVac$159
- Telescope$158
- CoreValve Evolut$151
- Resolute$150
- Artis Q$148
- TherOx DS2 Console$142
- Catheter$142
- Downstream Cartridge$142
- GUIDELINER$137
- SYNERGY$135
- Arrow$132
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$132
How this compares
$13,987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 84 interventional cardiology providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $162 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Minneapolis
- Emmanouil BrilakisMinneapolis$548K
- Wesley PedersenMinneapolis$493K
- Michael ManolesMinneapolis$201K
- Jay TraverseMinneapolis$198K
- Robert WilsonMinneapolis$176K
- Yale WangMinneapolis$168K
- Steven RohMinneapolis$67K
- Stefan BertogMinneapolis$64K
- Konstantinos VoudrisMinneapolis$46K
- Michael MooneyMinneapolis$25K
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.