Has Vinayak Bapat, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $792,364 in general payments to Vinayak Bapat, MD across 878 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 Vinayak Bapat, 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 Vinayak Bapat, 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.

Vinayak Bapat, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1730617713

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (38.8%), other and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 49.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $386,439 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $100,580 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MN 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.

$792,364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 878 payments — averaging $902.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$395K
Medtronic$205K
Abbott$175K
Boston Scientific$10K
Atricure, Inc.$4K
Opsens Inc.$1K
plus $2K from 9 others

$265,933in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $5114.09 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$98K
Atricure, Inc.$93K
Boston Scientific$75K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$307,75039%
Speaking & faculty fees$104,55613%
Grants$660%
Travel & lodging$123,37216%
Food & beverage$33,5374%
Other$223,08228%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	239	$395,093
Medtronic(2 entities)	415	$205,121
Abbott	156	$174,932
Boston Scientific	35	$10,020
Atricure, Inc.	17	$3,920
Opsens Inc.	1	$1,000
Clearflow Inc.	1	$751
Corcym Inc	5	$634
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$375
Artivion, Inc.	2	$225
Innovative Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$131
GE HealthCare	2	$92
Johnson & Johnson	1	$29
Baxter Healthcare	1	$22
Croivalve Inc	1	$19

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.

Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$112,381
NAVITOR$98,605
CoreValve Evolut$50,968
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$39,465
JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$15,600
Epic$12,867
PORTICO$11,386
Avalus$7,408
GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$7,403
MitraClip System$6,892
Portico Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve$6,625
AMPLATZER Occluders$3,900
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$2,334
AMPLATZER$2,275
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$1,300
MitraClip$1,277
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,071
SavvyWire$1,000
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$939
APOLLOTM$839

How this compares

$792,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 128 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$71,657

Medicare patients

Services billed

104

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Minneapolis

Benjamin SunMinneapolis$443K
Nader MoazamiMinneapolis$28K
Sarah PalmerMinneapolis$28K
Matthew GraczykMinneapolis$28K
Amit BhargavaMinneapolis$27K
Eric AndersonMinneapolis$24K
Aitua SalamiMinneapolis$14K
Robert SteffenMinneapolis$9K
Sebastian Iturra UrriolaMinneapolis$9K
Erik BeckmannMinneapolis$6K

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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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