Ganesha Perera, MD
Vascular Surgery · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1689746299
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Silk Road Medical, Inc. at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,440 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $672 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $7,261.
Across 84 payments — averaging $80.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
- Stryker$648
- Organogenesis Inc.$597
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$323
- Cook Medical LLC$320
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,78856%
- Food & beverage$2,99344%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $2,355 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 9 | $1,208 |
| Stryker | 2 | $648 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 13 | $597 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 9 | $323 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 8 | $320 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 7 | $293 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $180 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $138 |
| Warner-lambert Company LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $48 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| EKOS Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $32 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Normatec Industries, LP | 1 | $16 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$4,658
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$2,329
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$2,329
- GlideWire$716
- CLOTTRIEVER BOLD CATHETER$611
- Navicross$414
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface$142
- Glidesheath$138
- Endurant$130
- PuraPly$125
- XARELTO$108
- Diamondback Peripheral$106
How this compares
$6,780 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 58 | $44,045 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 50 | $32,946 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 132 | $1,659 |
| Cilostazol | 38 | $630 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 48 | $260 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 26 | $194 |
| Furosemide | 26 | $120 |
| Diazepam | 56 | $84 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $66 |
| Prednisone | 21 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $32 | $44,04558 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $180 | $32,94650 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.
Other vascular surgery in Murrells Inlet
- John RossOrangeburg$847K
- David DeatonColumbia$609K
- Mathew WoosterWest Columbia$443K
- Sagar GandhiGreenville$236K
- Ravi VeeraswamyCharleston$164K
- Gerald FortunaWest Columbia$143K
- Kristian HochbergCharleston$106K
- Joseph BlasGreenville$101K
- Thomas ApplebyNorth Charleston$89K
- Zachary ArthursCharleston$84K
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.