Rami Kahwash, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Columbus, OHNPI 1053515718
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 333 payments — averaging $2924.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$486K
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$320K
- Endotronix, Inc.$73K
- Medtronic$72K
- Cvrx, Inc.$11K
- Bayer$8K
- plus $4K from 5 others
Across 62 payments — averaging $1928.56 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.
- Medtronic$120K
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 | 57 | $485,761 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 174 | $320,002 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 3 | $73,307 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 72 | $71,702 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 13 | $10,986 |
| Bayer | 7 | $7,714 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $4,000 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $135 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $24 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$973,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 62 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Ohio.
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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.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Columbus
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- William AbrahamColumbus$885K
- Ray HershbergerColumbus$341K
- Brent LampertColumbus$338K
- Ajay VallakatiColumbus$164K
- Ayesha HasanColumbus$103K
- Garrie HaasColumbus$83K
- Vaiibhav PatelColumbus$58K
- Lindsay CastleColumbus$55K
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.