Ganga Prabhakar, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Des Moines, IANPI 1023109444
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,000 of the $16,387 with a category attached, or 79.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,437 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $142 in 2025.
Across 55 payments — averaging $297.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abiomed$273
- Edwards Lifesciences$230
- Atricure, Inc.$132
- Johnson & Johnson$106
- plus $286 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,89912%
- Food & beverage$1,4889%
- Education$13,00079%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $13,774 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,587 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $273 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $230 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $106 |
| Abbott | 4 | $83 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $65 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Corcym Inc | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$13,464
- HeartWare HVAD$1,367
- Impella$273
- EV1000 Clinical Platform$133
- Arctic Front$109
How this compares
$16,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Iowa.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Des Moines
- Robert GallegosDes Moines$156K
- Ali Al AmeriDes Moines$53K
- Tayyaba MalikDes Moines$21K
- Hashim HanifDes Moines$15K
- Bethany HarpoleDes Moines$10K
- Bart JensonDes Moines$9K
- Mark MankinsDes Moines$5K
- Marnix VerhofsteDes Moines$1K
- Robert SchneiderDes Moines$285
- Garry WeideCedar Rapids$39K
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.