Ramakrishna Venkatesh, MD
Urology · Saint Charles, MONPI 1548286768
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $46.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Calyxo, Inc.$418
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$370
- Cook Medical LLC$302
- Neotract Inc.$250
- Boston Scientific$244
- Intuitive Surgical$237
- plus $901 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2258%
- Food & beverage$2,49792%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calyxo, Inc. | 7 | $418 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $370 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $302 |
| Neotract Inc. | 3 | $250 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $244 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $237 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 2 | $118 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $110 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $98 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $70 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $57 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 3 | $56 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $34 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| SRS Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Cook$302
- CVAC Aspiration System$259
- UroLift$235
- (815) Thiola$225
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$144
- Da Vinci Surgical System$136
- ZUSDURI$124
- AquaBeam Robotic System$100
How this compares
$2,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 250 urology providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 147 | $1,237 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 43 | $851 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 12 | $791 |
| Cephalexin | 36 | $189 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 11 | $122 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 20 | $94 |
| Finasteride | 13 | $56 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Saint Charles
- Travis BullockSaint Louis$751K
- Michael JohnsonSaint Louis$471K
- Gregory AuffenbergSaint Louis$468K
- Gerald AndrioleSaint Louis$308K
- Hing LaiSaint Louis$173K
- Samuel KuykendallKansas City$141K
- Donald NeffKansas City$141K
- Gerald ParkNorth Kansas City$136K
- Mark WakefieldColumbia$122K
- Gautum AgarwalSaint Louis$111K
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.