Kourosh Baghelai, MD
Vascular Surgery · Saint Joseph, MINPI 1366434987
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,607 of the $7,866 with a category attached, or 71.3%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 45.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,475, 2.8 times the $881 reported in 2019.
Across 86 payments — averaging $91.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$466
- Atricure, Inc.$313
- Johnson & Johnson$137
- plus $99 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,94725%
- Food & beverage$5,60771%
- Education$3124%
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(2 entities) | 51 | $3,609 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $1,640 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,602 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $466 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $313 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $137 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $99 |
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.
How this compares
$7,866 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 183 vascular surgery providers in Michigan.
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 | 31 | $26,332 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 103 | $1,590 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 78 | $952 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 33 | $495 |
| Cilostazol | 17 | $230 |
| Simvastatin | 13 | $130 |
| Furosemide | 24 | $121 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 23 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Saint Joseph
- Nicolas MouawadWest Branch$1.7M
- Enrique Criado PallaresMidland$800K
- Jordan KnepperEast Lansing$336K
- Joseph CuppariClinton Township$98K
- Eanas YassaGrand Rapids$81K
- Abedelkarim AbushmaiesBattle Creek$75K
- Kevin OnofreyDetroit$65K
- Yevgeniy RitsDetroit$57K
- Ryan KimSaginaw$50K
- Jimmy HaouilouSaint Clair Shores$45K
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.