Raktim Ghosh, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Baltimore, MDNPI 1588004071
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 12 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 25.7% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $1,418.
Across 12 payments — averaging $41.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$129
- Boston Scientific$124
- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$111
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$58
- Edwards Lifesciences$31
- Philips North America LLC$27
- plus $24 from 1 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $854.45 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.
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$21K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$504100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $124 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 4 | $111 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $58 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
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
$504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 157 | $208,717 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 106 | $155,365 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 67 | $92,263 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 59 | $65,123 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 37 | $32,943 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 19 | $10,923 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 13 | $9,221 |
| Dofetilide | 13 | $5,866 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 44 | $5,060 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 252 | $4,383 |
| Ezetimibe | 64 | $4,290 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 223 | $3,727 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 76 | $2,502 |
| Carvedilol | 181 | $2,032 |
| Nitroglycerin | 91 | $1,987 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Baltimore
- Navin KapurBaltimore$1.5M
- Michael BlahaBaltimore$609K
- Sanjay RajagopalanBaltimore$521K
- Erin MichosBaltimore$257K
- Seth MartinBaltimore$166K
- Erika FellerBaltimore$121K
- Charles CummingsBaltimore$114K
- John RickardBaltimore$109K
- Christopher DefilippiBaltimore$101K
- David KassBaltimore$90K
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.