Has Carlos Ruiz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $103,937 in general payments to Carlos Ruiz, MD across 157 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 Carlos Ruiz, 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 Carlos Ruiz, 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.

Carlos Ruiz, MD

Psychiatry · Orlando, FLNPI 1508804766

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $94,179 of the $103,937 with a category attached, or 90.6%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alkermes, Inc. at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $39,360 and has fallen 77.8% since, to $8,732 in 2025. Among psychiatry clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$103,937in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $662.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$53K
Johnson & Johnson$50K
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$348
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$204
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$158
AbbVie$154
plus $414 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$94,17991%
Travel & lodging$4,7445%
Food & beverage$4,9785%
Education$360%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	59	$52,882
Johnson & Johnson	82	$49,777
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	2	$348
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$204
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$158
AbbVie	2	$154
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$135
Tris Pharma Inc	1	$124
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	1	$94
Exact Sciences	1	$29
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$18
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	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.

How this compares

$103,937 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,059 psychiatry providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,775

Medicare patients

215

Services billed

466

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
Clozapine	13	$890
Quetiapine Fumarate	87	$663
Duloxetine Hcl	40	$655
Mirtazapine	50	$454
Buspirone Hcl	35	$258
Benztropine Mesylate	19	$201
Trazodone Hcl	35	$189
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	15	$175
Doxepin Hcl	15	$167
Topiramate	27	$165
Oxcarbazepine	11	$164
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	11	$105
Risperidone	15	$76
Clonazepam	20	$64
Sertraline Hcl	11	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Orlando

Ramon MartinezOrlando$354K
David MedinaOrlando$199K
Morteza NadjafiOrlando$58K
Andrew CutlerLakewood Ranch$5.7M
Richard JacksonBoca Raton$3.6M
Ilan MelnickCoral Gables$2.8M
Todd BroderSt Augustine$1.6M
Heather LuingSaint Augustine$1.5M
Todd GatesWest Melbourne$1.2M
Lawrence ReccoppaGainesville$968K

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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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