Has Ramesh Cherukuri, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,395 in general payments to Ramesh Cherukuri, MD across 112 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 Ramesh Cherukuri, 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 Ramesh Cherukuri, 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.

Ramesh Cherukuri, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saginaw, MINPI 1962482539

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 112 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,625 and has fallen 60.5% since, to $641 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $5,088.

$5,395in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 112 payments — averaging $48.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$319
EMD Serono, Inc.$275
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$211
Terumo Medical Corporation$107
plus $341 from 6 others

$33,783in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $4222.93 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.

Livanova USA, Inc.$34K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,395100%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	47	$3,013
Atricure, Inc.	17	$1,129
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$319
EMD Serono, Inc.	29	$275
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	6	$211
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$107
Bayer	2	$93
Baxter Healthcare	1	$69
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$63
Medtronic	1	$44
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$36
Abbott	2	$36

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.

MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$359
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$206
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$139
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$139
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$115
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$112
TYKE, PATCH, PLEDGET AND INTRACARDIAC$110
RESTOREFLOW$105
KONECT RESILIA$104
XENOSURE BIOLOGIC PATCH$103
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$103

How this compares

$5,395 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 182 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$143,492

Medicare patients

Services billed

175

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saginaw

Bakri KaakehSaginaw$23K
Steven BollingAnn Arbor$41.7M
Raed AlnajjarDetroit$781K
Gorav AilawadiAnn Arbor$434K
Reza DabirDearborn$342K
Shinichi FukuharaAnn Arbor$236K
John ParisGrand Rapids$226K
Zane HammoudDetroit$208K
Bo YangAnn Arbor$180K
Matthew RomanoAnn Arbor$177K

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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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