Has Meena Rao, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,204 in general payments to Meena Rao, MD across 353 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 Meena Rao, 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 Meena Rao, 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.

Meena Rao, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1932367471

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 52.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $16,673.

$15,204in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 353 payments — averaging $43.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$8K
Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$1K
Atricure, Inc.$991
Biosense Webster, Inc.$936
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$294
plus $722 from 8 others

$47,422in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $2155.57 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$36K
Boston Scientific$11K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,20028%
Travel & lodging$2,06514%
Food & beverage$8,87958%
Education$600%

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)	59	$7,973
Boston Scientific	153	$3,133
Abbott	30	$1,156
Atricure, Inc.	24	$991
Biosense Webster, Inc.	20	$936
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$294
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	45	$286
Elutia, Inc.	8	$131
Biotronik Inc.	6	$112
Philips North America LLC	2	$99
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$48
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$22
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Teleflex LLC	1	$11

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.

Performa$1,690
Carto 3$563
AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$268
JOT DX$180
QDOT MICRO Catheter$173
SelectSecure$168
AVEIR$167
OMNIASECURE MRI SURESCAN$164
Azure$159
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$147
WATCHMAN FLX$145
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$123
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$123
WATCHMAN Access System$122
ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$120
LINQ II$103

How this compares

$15,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 98 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$374,065

Medicare patients

1,892

Services billed

4,751

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	247	$311,988
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	99	$117,017
XareltoRivaroxaban	60	$58,338
Metoprolol Succinate	582	$10,693
Dofetilide	41	$10,083
Amiodarone Hcl	165	$5,162
Flecainide Acetate	118	$4,660
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	67	$2,096
Potassium Chloride	33	$982
SotalolSotalol Hcl	36	$930
Losartan Potassium	38	$629
Valsartan	21	$621
Diltiazem Hcl	15	$586
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl	22	$559
Pravastatin Sodium	11	$550

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Wilmington

Taylor BazemoreWilmington$62K
William SmithWilmington$52K
Craig McCotterWilmington$51K
Keith GoldenWilmington$14K
Michael ManogueAsheville$230K
Daniel FriedmanDurham$196K
James AllredGreensboro$184K
John RhynerAsheville$168K
Gregory HarrisGreenville$164K
John CatanzaroGreenville$159K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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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