Omar Karim, MD
Vascular Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1780973362
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.3% of the total across 227 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,350 and has fallen 62.9% since, to $872 in 2025.
Across 227 payments — averaging $33.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$987
- Boston Scientific$895
- Endologix LLC$757
- Penumbra, Inc.$563
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1602%
- Travel & lodging$4115%
- Food & beverage$6,92091%
- Education$881%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 34 | $1,205 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 55 | $1,201 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $987 |
| Boston Scientific | 32 | $895 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $757 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 8 | $563 |
| Medline Industries LP | 15 | $371 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $238 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $215 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $185 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $136 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $99 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Stryker | 2 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $33 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Indigo$313
- Ovation$305
- ENDURANT IIS$276
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$274
- AFX$150
- ELUVIA$149
- Barostim Neo System$134
- AZUR$127
- Zenith Spiral-Z$125
- Zilver Vena$122
- C3 Delivery System$119
- Cook Medical Thoracic$114
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$114
- Cook Medical AAA$107
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$104
- Cook Medical Flexor Ansel$100
- Hyalomatrix Wound Device$100
- PluroGel Burn and Wound Dressings$100
How this compares
$7,579 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 104 vascular surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 30 | $1,264 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 18 | $153 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Baltimore
- Caitlin HicksBaltimore$88K
- Shahab ToursavadkohiBaltimore$76K
- Frank CriadoBaltimore$52K
- Khanjan NagarshethBaltimore$33K
- Saurabh GuptaBaltimore$31K
- Paul LucasBaltimore$27K
- Brajesh LalBaltimore$25K
- Rishi KundiBaltimore$14K
- James BlackBaltimore$14K
- Christopher AbularrageBaltimore$13K
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.