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

Meena Rao

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Wilmington, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1932367471 CMS profile 1381160

1500 Physicians Dr, Wilmington, NC 28401

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General payments

$15,204

353 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

$47,422 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2024

Through program year 2025, Meena Rao of Wilmington, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $15,204 across 353 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $47,422 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 44th percentile of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 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 $4,116 80
2024 General $4,435 89
2023 General $1,372 58
2022 General $1,927 49
2021 General $528 25
2020 General $2,376 24
2019 General $450 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Meena Rao
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Meena Rao were reported at $4,116. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.

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Year Meena Rao Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $450 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $2,376 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $528 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $1,927 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $1,372 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $4,435 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $4,116 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $5,482 24 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $3,133 153 payments
  3. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $2,491 35 payments
  4. Abbott Laboratories $1,156 30 payments
  5. Atricure, Inc. $991 24 payments
  6. Biosense Webster, Inc. $936 20 payments
  7. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $294 2 payments
  8. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $286 45 payments
  9. Aziyo Biologics, Inc. $131 8 payments
  10. Biotronik Inc. $112 6 payments
  11. Other $192 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,879 344 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $4,200 2 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $2,065 6 payments
  4. Education $60 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Performa $1,898 7 payments
  2. WATCHMAN FLX $1,267 78 payments
  3. WATCHMAN Access System $1,074 41 payments
  4. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $991 24 payments
  5. Carto 3 $693 10 payments
  6. AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN $369 8 payments
  7. QDOT MICRO Catheter $322 5 payments
  8. JOT DX $302 3 payments
  9. LifeVest $286 45 payments
  10. AVEIR $221 2 payments
  11. Other $3,543 124 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 30 drugs

Part D claims

2,026

Median for Undefined Physician type: 319

Drug cost

$528,900

Median for Undefined Physician type: $28,032

Branded share of claims

28.6%

Median for Undefined Physician type: 24.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 247 $311,988
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 99 $117,017
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 60 $58,338
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 582 $10,693
Dofetilide Generic 41 $10,083
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 165 $5,162
Flecainide Acetate Generic 118 $4,660
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 67 $2,096
Potassium Chloride Generic 33 $982
Sotalol Sotalol Hcl Brand 36 $930

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 30 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 138 Part D prescribers listed as Undefined Physician type; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 103 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$287,068

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,892

Average age 78

Services billed

4,751

800 women, 1,092 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%
Atrial fibrillation 70%
Ischemic heart disease 55%
Arthritis 53%
Heart failure 47%
Diabetes 39%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
Depression 26%

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

353 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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