Has Ranganathan Govindaraj, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,953 in general payments to Ranganathan Govindaraj, MD across 32 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 Ranganathan Govindaraj, 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 Ranganathan Govindaraj, 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.

Ranganathan Govindaraj, MD

Anesthesiology · Galveston, TXNPI 1871653683

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 32.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,249 and has fallen 51.8% since, to $603 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $92.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$954
BD$450
MML US, Inc.$270
Nalu Medical, Inc.$232
Medtronic$148
Si-bone, Inc.$125
plus $775 from 13 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$45015%
Travel & lodging$81227%
Food & beverage$1,69257%

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
Boston Scientific	10	$954
BD	1	$450
MML US, Inc.	2	$270
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$232
Medtronic	2	$148
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$125
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$122
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$120
Abbott	1	$116
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$100
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$94
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1	$85
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$35
Masimo Corporation	1	$27
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	1	$23
AbbVie	1	$18
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Pfizer	1	$15
Epimed International, Inc	1	$5

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

$2,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$13,048

Medicare patients

Services billed

185

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	121	$2,957
Gabapentin	170	$1,894
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	88	$1,680
Pregabalin	50	$880
Celecoxib	63	$631
Methocarbamol	32	$459
Tramadol Hcl	111	$423
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$289
Tizanidine Hcl	42	$198
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	23	$167
Methadone Hcl	12	$163
Hydromorphone Hcl	12	$159
Amitriptyline Hcl	27	$111

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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James MuellerDallas$636K
Randy RobbinsPlano$593K
Gabriel MenaHouston$494K
Maxim EckmannSan Antonio$349K
Iden CowanAustin$305K
Ryan CaseyAustin$287K
Girish JoshiDallas$239K

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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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