MS. Swati Rao, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Musc Medical Center Hospital · Charleston, SC

Colleagues at Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 393 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• David Michael Becnel, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Gainesville, FL
• Dr. Mark McCreary Cassidy, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Joshua Lee Denson, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Megan Rachel Flanagan, MD Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · Metairie, LA
• Shekinah M. Gleason, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Metairie, LA
• Matthew T Hurford, MD Hematology (Pathology) Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Yazan Subhi Juma, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Diala Khirfan, MBBS Transplant Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Joseph Lasky, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Victoria Marcev, ACNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Fredric Gary Regenstein, MD Hepatology Physician · Kansas City, MO
• Mr. Krishna Chandra Vemulapalli, MD Orthopaedic Trauma Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in Charleston

• Caitlin Elizabeth Beaman, FNP-C

  Individual Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1982207320

  9313 Medical Plaza Dr Ste 305, Charleston, SC 29406-9197 · (843) 863-5600

• Colin Blumenthal, MDMS

  Individual Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1740778612

  171 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29425-0100 · (843) 792-1414

• Dr. Rory Dowd, MBBS, MENG

  Individual Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1013734227

  169 Ashley Ave Rm 202, Charleston, SC 29425-8905 · (843) 876-4794

• Michael R Gold, MD

  Individual Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1740398783

  171 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29425-0001 · (843) 792-1414

• Roper Saint Francis Physicians Network

  Organization Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1306653936

  615 Wesley Dr Ste 320, Charleston, SC 29407-7274 · (843) 534-1770

• Roper Saint Francis Physicians Network

  Organization Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · NPI 1821805458

  1033 Saint Andrews Blvd, Charleston, SC 29407-7156 · (843) 534-1770