Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Mahesh Ramchandani

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1073513693 CMS profile 229695

6550 Fannin St, Suite 1401, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$109,829

237 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$15,371 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2021

Through program year 2025, Mahesh Ramchandani of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $109,829 across 237 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $15,371 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $37,696 38
2024 General $4,642 22
2023 General $5,200 11
2022 General $2,407 21
2021 General $3,337 13
2020 General $1,695 22
2019 General $54,852 110

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Mahesh Ramchandani
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Mahesh Ramchandani were reported at $37,696. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Mahesh Ramchandani Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $54,852 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $1,695 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $3,337 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $2,407 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $5,200 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $4,642 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $37,696 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LivaNova USA, Inc. $53,318 73 payments
  2. Lsi Solutions Inc $30,376 8 payments
  3. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $8,789 18 payments
  4. Corcym Inc $5,597 11 payments
  5. Baxter Healthcare $3,355 9 payments
  6. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $1,553 7 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $1,083 28 payments
  8. Medinc of Texas $986 8 payments
  9. Maquet Cardiovascular U.S. Sales, L.L.C. $576 17 payments
  10. Boston Scientific Corporation $533 7 payments
  11. Other $3,662 51 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $45,600 16 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $24,012 60 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $18,581 150 payments
  4. Education $7,000 4 payments
  5. Consulting Fee $6,835 3 payments
  6. Entertainment $6,686 1 payment
  7. Honoraria $900 2 payments
  8. Gift $214 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Perceval Cardiology/Vascular Diseases $52,952 71 payments
  2. RAM $30,376 8 payments
  3. COR-KNOT $30,376 8 payments
  4. miniRUMEL $27,567 5 payments
  5. SEW-EASY $27,567 5 payments
  6. Mi-CHORD $27,567 5 payments
  7. DAVINCI XI $7,000 4 payments
  8. PERCEVAL Pericardial Surgical Heart Valve $5,597 11 payments
  9. No Related Product $2,660 1 payment
  10. Da Vinci Surgical System $1,789 14 payments
  11. Other $8,760 120 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$115,601

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

66

Average age 72

Services billed

155

18 women, 48 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Atrial fibrillation 56%
Diabetes 47%
Heart failure 44%
Arthritis 38%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
COPD 29%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

237 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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