Ravi Alapati, MD
Surgery · Owensboro, KYNPI 1992949838
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (57.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 97 payments — averaging $226.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$18K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$507
- Novo Nordisk$236
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$128
- plus $504 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0005%
- Travel & lodging$4,82322%
- Food & beverage$3,60016%
- Education$12,50057%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 32 | $17,610 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $1,904 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,047 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $507 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $236 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $128 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $110 |
| Abbott | 3 | $73 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 3 | $54 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $44 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Vertex | 1 | $13 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
How this compares
$21,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 58 | $580 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $478 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 24 | $382 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 35 | $260 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 17 | $180 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 34 | $87 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 16 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Owensboro
- Thomas NebelOwensboro$31K
- Samuel CarsonOwensboro$25K
- Matthew StrodeOwensboro$14K
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John RothLexington$820K
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- Jared DavisLouisville$89K
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.