Has Ganesh Venkataraman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $842,473 in general payments to Ganesh Venkataraman, MD across 1,064 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 Ganesh Venkataraman, MD 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 Ganesh Venkataraman, MD 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.

Ganesh Venkataraman, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Lakewood, CONPI 1447437330

Payments from drug & device makers

$842,473in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,064 payments — averaging $791.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$285K
Medtronic$220K
Abbott$149K
Cortex, Inc.$148K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$12K
Pfizer$11K
plus $18K from 49 others

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	224	$284,785
Medtronic(2 entities)	175	$219,601
Abbott	336	$149,286
Cortex, Inc.	3	$148,281
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	48	$11,533
Pfizer	35	$10,954
Novartis	19	$9,850
Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC	6	$2,136
Biosense Webster, Inc.	40	$1,925
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	12	$724
Amgen	22	$404
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	19	$316
Baxter Healthcare	6	$312
Boehringer Ingelheim	16	$295
Johnson & Johnson	13	$237
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$201
Abiomed	3	$179
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.	10	$146
AstraZeneca	6	$95
Atricure, Inc.	2	$93
Biotronik Inc.	4	$81
Cvrx, Inc.	4	$67
Merck	4	$66
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	5	$62
Vital Connect, Inc	1	$58
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$51
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$47
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	2	$40
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$40
Lundbeck LLC	2	$39
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	2	$36
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$36
Philips North America LLC	2	$36
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$30
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$30
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$28
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	2	$26
Z-medica, LLC	1	$24
Novo Nordisk	1	$24
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$23
Convatec Inc.	1	$23
Gilead	1	$22
BD	1	$22
Bayer	1	$22
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$19
Baylis Medical Company Inc	1	$18
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$17
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$17
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$16
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$14
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$13
Ossur Americas, Inc.	1	$11

How this compares

$842,473 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 66 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$610,579

Medicare patients

1,375

Services billed

7,463

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 clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Lakewood

Layth SalehLakewood$177K
Srikanth SundaramLittleton$2.1M
Bradley MikaelianColorado Springs$617K
Wendy TzouAurora$538K
Christopher PorterfieldAurora$533K
Benjamin SteinbergDenver$383K
Amar TrivediLoveland$380K
Ethan EllisFort Collins$307K
Margot VlokaAurora$293K
Christopher ColeColorado Springs$148K

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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.

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