Has Brian Ramza, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,802 in general payments to Brian Ramza, MD across 43 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 Brian Ramza, 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 Brian Ramza, 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.

Brian Ramza, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Kansas City, MONPI 1598713901

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,786 of the $3,802 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,340 and has fallen 89.7% since, to $138 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $14,594.

$3,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $88.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Philips North America LLC$1K
Abbott$570
Boston Scientific$526
Biosense Webster, Inc.$94
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$13

$1,308,432in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 280 payments — averaging $4672.97 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$1.2M
Boston Scientific$41K
Abbott$26K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,01627%
Food & beverage$2,78673%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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)	21	$1,341
Philips North America LLC	9	$1,258
Abbott	5	$570
Boston Scientific	6	$526
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$94
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$13

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.

How this compares

$3,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 74 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$301,348

Medicare patients

1,765

Services billed

4,500

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
EliquisApixaban	506	$603,382
XareltoRivaroxaban	176	$204,805
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	37	$54,932
JardianceEmpagliflozin	27	$31,637
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	25	$20,620
Flecainide Acetate	261	$12,174
Dofetilide	77	$11,567
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	172	$4,130
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	14	$3,828
Mexiletine Hcl	26	$3,767
Atorvastatin Calcium	219	$2,034
Metoprolol Succinate	192	$1,900
Carvedilol	181	$1,753
Potassium Chloride	60	$1,358
Ezetimibe	30	$1,092

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Kansas City

Sanjaya GuptaKansas City$316K
Jessica KlineKansas City$75K
Daniel SteinhausKansas City$28K
Alan WimmerKansas City$18K
Luis CouchonnalKansas City$15K
Alejandro Perez-VerdiaKansas City$7K
Phillip CuculichSaint Louis$473K
Daniel CooperSaint Louis$168K
Mahmoud ElsayedNorth Kansas City$67K
Scott KoerberIndependence$58K

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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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