Raghunandan Kamineni, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Salem, ORNPI 1659372407
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 237 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 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 237 payments — averaging $22.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$918
- Edwards Lifesciences$725
- Pfizer$619
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$339
- Medtronic$293
- Biotronik Inc.$293
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,340100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 56 | $918 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $725 |
| Pfizer | 40 | $619 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $339 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $293 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 7 | $293 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $289 |
| Amgen | 11 | $183 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $181 |
| Abbott | 4 | $138 |
| Merck | 6 | $129 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $100 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Change Healthcare Technologies, LLC | 1 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $87 |
| Bayer | 4 | $79 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $55 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $52 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $48 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $42 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $31 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $24 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $15 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 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.
How this compares
$5,340 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 198 cardiovascular disease providers in Oregon.
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 | 489 | $457,833 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 126 | $129,771 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 126 | $106,711 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 75 | $55,103 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 541 | $8,278 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $7,647 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 488 | $5,566 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 388 | $5,513 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 229 | $5,423 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 303 | $4,437 |
| Carvedilol | 390 | $3,985 |
| Potassium Chloride | 144 | $3,812 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 25 | $2,994 |
| Furosemide | 398 | $2,760 |
| Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl | 118 | $2,612 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $619 | $457,833489 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $55 | $129,771126 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $918 | $106,711126 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $87 | $7,64713 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 198 cardiovascular disease providers in Oregon.
Other cardiovascular disease in Salem
- Maziar AzadpourSalem$12K
- Kamran GhaliliSalem$11K
- Harminder GandhokSalem$8K
- Deborah HughesSalem$8K
- Ivan ArenasSalem$2K
- Firas ZahrPortland$810K
- Kathy GreweHood River$376K
- Scott ChadderdonPortland$282K
- Ahmad MasriPortland$227K
- Ashwat DhillonCorvallis$156K
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.