Has Kalkidan Bishu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,438 in general payments to Kalkidan Bishu, MD across 24 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 Kalkidan Bishu, 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 Kalkidan Bishu, 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.

Kalkidan Bishu, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Duluth, MNNPI 1881887818

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,710 of the $2,438 with a category attached, or 70.2%. Abbott accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2024 is the largest year on record at $1,890, 5.8 times the $328 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $5,396.

$2,438in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $101.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Boston Scientific$143
Edwards Lifesciences$117
Medtronic$69
Shockwave Medical, Inc$22
Angiodynamics, Inc.$12

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,71070%
Food & beverage$72830%

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
Abbott	15	$2,074
Boston Scientific	3	$143
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$117
Medtronic	2	$69
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$22
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$12

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.

MitraClip$807
Mitra Clip system$112

How this compares

$2,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 84 interventional cardiology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$133,026

Medicare patients

1,091

Services billed

1,753

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	176	$177,262
CamzyosMavacamten	14	$97,441
XareltoRivaroxaban	79	$73,661
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab	64	$54,630
JardianceEmpagliflozin	43	$38,293
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	21	$22,812
Praluent PenAlirocumab	15	$15,568
BrilintaTicagrelor	15	$12,573
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab	12	$6,464
Metoprolol Succinate	292	$4,449
Atorvastatin Calcium	333	$3,799
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	171	$2,679
Torsemide	86	$2,574
Ezetimibe	111	$2,245
Amiodarone Hcl	72	$1,910

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional cardiology in Duluth

Leif ChristiansonDuluth$5K
Wilson GineteDuluth$4K
Jason SchultzDuluth$3K
Faraz Nasim KazmiDuluth$2K
Thom DahleSaint Cloud$1.1M
Stephen KiddSaint Cloud$607K
Brian StegmanSt Cloud$587K
Emmanouil BrilakisMinneapolis$548K
Wesley PedersenMinneapolis$493K
Michael ManolesMinneapolis$201K

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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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