Has Omar Ghanem, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,257 in general payments to Omar Ghanem, MD across 56 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 Omar Ghanem, 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 Omar Ghanem, 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.

Omar Ghanem, MD

Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1245544576

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (35.2%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 47.8% of the total. Among surgery clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$42,257in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $754.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$20K
Intuitive Surgical$13K
Olympus Corporation$5K
Regeneron$3K
Conmed Corporation$231
Davol Inc.$163
plus $339 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$14,89435%
Speaking & faculty fees$14,25034%
Travel & lodging$3,4538%
Food & beverage$2,6406%
Education$7,02117%

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	23	$20,193
Intuitive Surgical	16	$13,186
Olympus Corporation	2	$5,200
Regeneron	3	$2,944
Conmed Corporation	2	$231
Davol Inc.	2	$163
Boston Scientific	2	$138
Covidien LP	1	$84
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$44
AbbVie	1	$31
Merck	2	$24
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19

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

$42,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 498 surgery providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$49,128

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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Megan NelsonRochester$20K
Susanne WarnerRochester$20K
Cornelius ThielsRochester$17K
Daniel StephensRochester$16K
Jeffrey JohnsonRochester$13K
Jayson DockShakopee$266K
Charles SvendsenMinneapolis$266K

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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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