Rhoda Leichter, MD
Vascular Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1548286958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $972 of the $1,578 with a category attached, or 61.6%. Medtronic accounts for 66.7% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,061 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $105 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $3,317.
Across 33 payments — averaging $47.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Catheter Precision, Inc. FKA Ra Medical Systems, Inc.$92
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$80
- Avenu Medical Inc.$74
- Boston Scientific$70
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$63
- plus $147 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$60638%
- Food & beverage$97262%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,053 |
| Catheter Precision, Inc. FKA Ra Medical Systems, Inc. | 7 | $92 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $70 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Avinger Inc. | 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.
- Endurant$606
How this compares
$1,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 84 vascular surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 vascular surgery in Minneapolis
- Jesse ManungaMinneapolis$95K
- Joseph KaramMinneapolis$88K
- Derrick GreenMinneapolis$37K
- Jason AlexanderMinneapolis$11K
- Elliot StephensonMinneapolis$9K
- Christopher PedersenMinneapolis$8K
- Rachel AndrieMinneapolis$4K
- Timothy SullivanMinneapolis$4K
- Daniel IhnatMinneapolis$3K
- Layne JandaMinneapolis$3K
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.