Ari Kramer, MD
Surgery · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1073577698
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 578 payments — averaging $1543.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$429K
- Venturemed Group, Inc.$282K
- Phraxis, Inc.$85K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$44K
- Sonavex, Inc.$19K
- Mozarc Medical US LLC$15K
- plus $20K from 18 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $6200.00 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.
- Sonavex, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$146,59829%
- Speaking & faculty fees$273,18454%
- Travel & lodging$57,61011%
- Food & beverage$22,8485%
- Education$1,9590%
- Gifts$390%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 434 | $428,614 |
| Venturemed Group, Inc. | 45 | $281,636 |
| Phraxis, Inc. | 5 | $84,892 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 6 | $43,540 |
| Sonavex, Inc. | 2 | $18,800 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 21 | $14,577 |
| Covidien LP | 16 | $12,709 |
| AV Medical Technologies Ltd. | 4 | $2,532 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,437 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,343 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $608 |
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 2 | $428 |
| Stryker | 1 | $167 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $156 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $150 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Laminate Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $58 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $45 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$147,544
- FLEX Vessel Prep System$125,102
- IN.PACT AV$62,295
- Ellipsys$31,285
- EchoMark$18,800
- EchoSure$18,800
- IN.PACT Admiral$16,818
- PTA HIGH PRESSURE BALLOON DILATATION CATHETER$12,607
- Argyle$12,449
- Chameleon$8,187
- Palindrome$3,523
- TurboHawk$1,552
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,162
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$912
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$608
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$608
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$267
- INTHRILL THROMBECTOMY CATHETER$167
- Carpediem$166
- Ellipsys System$153
How this compares
$892,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 122 | $230 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 29 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Spartanburg
- Brian ThurstonSpartanburg$38K
- Jason JohnsonSpartanburg$27K
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Hongjie YuanGreenville$431K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- Jeremy WarrenGreenville$193K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$191K
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.