Ravishankar Kalaga, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Watertown, SDNPI 1174685515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 194 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 194 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$750
- Abbott$466
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$456
- Boston Scientific$233
- Novartis$230
- Amgen$224
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,943100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 35 | $750 |
| Abbott | 20 | $466 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 23 | $456 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $233 |
| Novartis | 15 | $230 |
| Amgen | 8 | $224 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $218 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $158 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $142 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $111 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $97 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 6 | $79 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $70 |
| Merck | 4 | $65 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $59 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $53 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $42 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| BD | 1 | $38 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $18 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Gilead | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
Too few interventional cardiology providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 116 | $75,892 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 27 | $17,003 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 14 | $12,647 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 12 | $8,123 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 173 | $1,750 |
| Prazosin Hcl | 50 | $931 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 46 | $831 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 68 | $636 |
| Carvedilol | 83 | $595 |
| Ezetimibe | 12 | $592 |
| Losartan Potassium | 103 | $578 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 72 | $502 |
| Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin | 12 | $498 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 27 | $477 |
| Potassium Chloride | 25 | $455 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $70 | $75,892116 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $11 | $12,64714 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $230 | $8,12312 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few interventional cardiology providers in South Dakotaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other interventional cardiology in Watertown
- Joseph ElliottWatertown$14K
- Salem MaalikiWatertown$2K
- Joseph TumaRapid City$61K
- John WagenerSioux Falls$36K
- Thomas WilsonRapid City$18K
- Sean HalliganSioux Falls$12K
- Tomasz StysSioux Falls$9K
- Adam StysSioux Falls$7K
- Marian PetraskoSioux Falls$4K
- Thomas WaterburySioux Falls$1K
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.