Vikram Palkar, DO
Vascular Surgery · Boise, IDNPI 1376947135
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 84 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,437 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $121 in 2025.
Across 84 payments — averaging $69.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$978
- Surmodics, Inc.$648
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$354
- Penumbra, Inc.$334
- plus $887 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,800100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $1,321 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $1,278 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 14 | $978 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 12 | $648 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $354 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $334 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $312 |
| Abbott | 1 | $130 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $119 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $25 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$2,279
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$306
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$306
- HawkOne$235
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$196
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$196
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$184
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$180
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$180
- FlowTriever$157
- ClotTriever$157
- IN.PACT Admiral$144
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$144
- ACUSEAL Vascular Graft$143
- Indigo System$140
- Indigo$139
- Supera peripheral stent system$130
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$129
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$126
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$126
How this compares
$5,800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 28 vascular surgery providers in Idaho.
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 vascular surgery in Boise
- Kenneth MadsenBoise$11K
- Louis ZhangBoise$7K
- Alexis GrahamBoise$6K
- Connie ZastrowBoise$5K
- Christine EdenBoise$3K
- Murtuza HabeebBoise$2K
- Graham DonaldBoise$2K
- Brian MattesonBoise$2K
- Christian Hamlat IiBoise$1K
- Jeffrey GilbertsonBoise$685
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.