Has Vijay Ramalingam, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $51,200 in general payments to Vijay Ramalingam, MD across 85 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 Vijay Ramalingam, 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 Vijay Ramalingam, 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.

Vijay Ramalingam, MD

Diagnostic Radiology · Boston, MANPI 1720244866

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.5%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 48.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $31,630, 4.2 times the $7,508 reported in 2019. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$51,200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $602.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$25K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$11K
Biocompatibles, Inc.$6K
Inari Medical, Inc.$5K
AstraZeneca$1K
Stryker$750
plus $3K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$22,79245%
Speaking & faculty fees$18,70037%
Travel & lodging$5,86411%
Food & beverage$3,8448%

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
Boston Scientific	45	$24,614
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$10,683
Biocompatibles, Inc.	7	$6,063
Inari Medical, Inc.	6	$5,392
AstraZeneca	1	$1,074
Stryker	1	$750
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$650
BD	1	$525
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$450
Sirtex Medical Inc	2	$281
Terumo Medical Corporation	3	$160
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$154
Cook Medical LLC	2	$126
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$116
Medtronic	2	$87
Johnson & Johnson	2	$41
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$34

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.

GENERAL - IO ABLATION$11,731
GORE VIATORR TIPS Endoprosthesis$8,280
GENERAL - THERAPIES$8,002
THERASPHERE-BIO$5,843
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$5,335
CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$5,335
GORE VIATORR TIPS Endoprosthesis with Controlled Expansion$2,114
Cryoablation needles$1,157
IMFINZI$1,074
CLOT MGMT$450
TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$293
SIR-Spheres Microspheres$281
VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface$166
Artis Q$154
Biograph Horizon$154
GENERAL ATHERECTOMY$125
VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$123
GENERAL EMBOLICS$122
CERTUS 140 MICROWAVE ABLATION SYSTEM$116

How this compares

$51,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,206 diagnostic radiology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$73,004

Medicare patients

249

Services billed

608

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 diagnostic radiology in Boston

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Stephan AndersonBoston$1.6M
Ashraf ThabetBoston$1.4M
Mukesh HarisinghaniBoston$1.4M
Andrew KompelBoston$1.3M
Elaine IuanowBoston$590K
Subba DigumarthyBoston$561K
Michael SteignerBoston$504K
Jennifer UyedaBoston$412K
Victorine MuseBoston$364K

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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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