Has Shashidhar Divakaruni, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $96,643 in general payments to Shashidhar Divakaruni, MD across 744 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Shashidhar Divakaruni, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Shashidhar Divakaruni, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Shashidhar Divakaruni, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Munster, INNPI 1902936578

Payments from drug & device makers

$96,643in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 744 payments — averaging $129.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$70K
Medtronic$5K
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$3K
Boston Scientific$2K
Philips North America LLC$2K
Amgen$1K
plus $12K from 46 others

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
Johnson & Johnson	170	$70,056
Medtronic(2 entities)	112	$5,298
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	63	$3,183
Boston Scientific	31	$2,439
Philips North America LLC	10	$2,189
Amgen	38	$1,458
Novartis	61	$1,229
Shockwave Medical, Inc	11	$1,121
AstraZeneca	39	$997
Penumbra, Inc.	6	$820
Cook Medical LLC	17	$719
Endologix LLC	9	$556
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	12	$499
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	11	$466
Abiomed	6	$439
Inari Medical, Inc.	22	$390
Cook Incorporated	1	$336
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	8	$333
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	7	$323
Merck	11	$317
Boehringer Ingelheim	10	$280
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	9	$272
Novo Nordisk	7	$242
Intuitive Surgical	2	$240
Teleflex LLC	2	$237
Pfizer	7	$227
Biotronik Inc.	2	$219
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	7	$213
Abbott	8	$202
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$127
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$124
Gilead	3	$118
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$116
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$106
Surmodics, Inc.	1	$99
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$95
Chiesi USA, Inc.	5	$78
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$74
Endotronix, Inc.	1	$57
Atricure, Inc.	2	$42
Avinger Inc.	1	$40
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$40
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$38
GSK	2	$29
Baxter Healthcare	1	$28
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	2	$28
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$24
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$22
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$21
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$19
Bayer	1	$14
Z-medica, LLC	1	$8

How this compares

$96,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 170 interventional cardiology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$432,808

Medicare patients

857

Services billed

4,818

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 interventional cardiology in Munster

Vinod NamanaMunster$48K
Shadi HalabiMunster$42K
Jonathan MeyerMunster$33K
James HermillerIndianapolis$2.8M
Jithendra ChoudaryRichmond$1.6M
Jeffrey BreallIndianapolis$955K
Samer AbbasEast Chicago$625K
Jarrod FrizzellEvansville$559K
Brian BigelowIndianapolis$444K
Saeed ShaikhIndianapolis$366K

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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.

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