Seshu Rao, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Topeka, KSNPI 1194757815
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,537 of the $6,175 with a category attached, or 73.5%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 59.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,195, 6.2 times the $352 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $8,846.
Across 208 payments — averaging $29.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abbott$453
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$425
- Abiomed$193
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$109
- plus $170 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,63927%
- Food & beverage$4,53773%
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) | 77 | $3,699 |
| Boston Scientific | 75 | $1,127 |
| Abbott | 9 | $453 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 38 | $425 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $193 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $109 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $57 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $51 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$6,175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 55 interventional cardiology providers in Kansas.
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 | 27 | $27,418 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 34 | $22,567 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 27 | $16,938 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 262 | $2,174 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 138 | $1,225 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 152 | $977 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 49 | $826 |
| Cilostazol | 21 | $521 |
| Losartan Potassium | 43 | $400 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 112 | $346 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 23 | $335 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 29 | $311 |
| Nitroglycerin | 28 | $305 |
| Carvedilol | 59 | $276 |
| Chlorthalidone | 18 | $252 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Topeka
- Ahmed SoukaTopeka$37K
- Sindhu AvulaTopeka$18K
- Jack JonesTopeka$3K
- Bashar AbabnehTopeka$2K
- Anthony SpaedyKansas City$385K
- Prasad GunasekaranKansas City$76K
- Maheedhar GedelaWichita$54K
- Kamal GuptaKansas City$46K
- Priyantha RanaweeraManhattan$41K
- Mark WileyKansas City$39K
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.