Kamran Karimi, MD
Vascular Surgery · Edina, MNNPI 1215947288
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 30.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,044, 3.2 times the $1,246 reported in 2019.
Across 112 payments — averaging $129.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$2K
- Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$761
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,63825%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1711%
- Travel & lodging$2,65518%
- Food & beverage$8,05055%
- Education$200%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 53 | $4,475 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $2,141 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 16 | $2,133 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 1 | $1,800 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 9 | $1,264 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $761 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $445 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $331 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $201 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $172 |
| Abbott | 1 | $171 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| TEI Medical 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.
- ENDURANT IIS$1,858
- Endurant$1,465
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,257
- Navicross$1,187
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$938
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$932
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$932
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$932
- GlideWire$707
- Indigo System$445
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$265
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$233
- MO.MA ULTRA$186
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$178
- XLIF$172
- Perclose ProGlide suture mediated closure system$171
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$163
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$163
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$159
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$154
How this compares
$14,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 84 vascular surgery 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 | 44 | $602 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 17 | $226 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $52 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $26 |
| Lorazepam | 11 | $13 |
| Clonidine Hcl | 13 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Edina
- Charles NicholsonEdina$11K
- William OmlieEdina$4K
- Timothy GavinEdina$4K
- Todd RasmussenRochester$561K
- Matthew MelinRochester$196K
- Jesse ManungaMinneapolis$95K
- Joseph KaramMinneapolis$88K
- Derrick GreenMinneapolis$37K
- Fahad ShujaRochester$34K
- Christopher LevilleSaint Cloud$30K
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.