Rohit Ranganath, MD
Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1700147360
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $12,376 with a category attached, or 80.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,153 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $627 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $301.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Medtronic$478
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$475
- Polynovo North America LLC$62
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$62
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$52
- plus $229 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8067%
- Food & beverage$1,57013%
- Education$10,00081%
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 | 14 | $11,019 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $478 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 6 | $475 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $62 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Stryker | 1 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,828
- Inspire$402
- PTEYE PARATHYROID DETECTION SYSTEM$179
- Signet$146
How this compares
$12,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.
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 surgery in Shreveport
- Kamel BraktaShreveport$95K
- Brian DockendorfShreveport$57K
- Frances AlloccoShreveport$38K
- James BarnesShreveport$33K
- Amos SitShreveport$29K
- John SavoyShreveport$22K
- Ronald MowadShreveport$19K
- George MerrimanShreveport$17K
- Jennifer KimShreveport$12K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
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.