Swathi Rao
Internal Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1205333663
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 232 payments — averaging $46.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- Merck$1K
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$927
- Cordis US CORP.$606
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,0009%
- Travel & lodging$4875%
- Food & beverage$9,17985%
- Education$1311%
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 | 36 | $1,711 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 25 | $1,313 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 18 | $1,002 |
| Merck | 1 | $1,000 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 35 | $927 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 12 | $606 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $578 |
| Abbott | 15 | $567 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 8 | $375 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 14 | $338 |
| Teleflex LLC | 5 | $311 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 8 | $306 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $236 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 7 | $218 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $199 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $158 |
| Amgen | 6 | $149 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $142 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $102 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $66 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $52 |
| Novartis | 2 | $47 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $38 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
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.
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$487
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$467
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$462
- MYNX CONTROL VENOUS$297
- ICAST COVERED STENT SYSTEM, 6MMX22MMX120CM$162
- Abre$158
- LifeSPARC$149
- LifeStent Solo Vascular Stent$133
- GUIDELINER$131
- QUADRA ASSURA$131
- TURNPIKE$130
- HawkOne$127
- AlphaVac$120
- CHOCOLATE PTA BALLOON CATHETER$120
- PACIFIC XTREME$115
- Ozempic$100
How this compares
$10,797 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Other internal medicine in Cincinnati
- Antoinette PragalosCincinnati$27.8M
- Charles EgerCincinnati$8.7M
- Douglas LoganCincinnati$4.7M
- Leela VrishabhendraCincinnati$3.4M
- Traci TurnerCincinnati$645K
- Vincent MartinCincinnati$398K
- Lisa LarkinCincinnati$276K
- Mark EckmanCincinnati$255K
- Kay JohnsonCincinnati$184K
- Steven FolkerthBeavercreek$9.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.