Christian Ramsey, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1073652152
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 61.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $31,536 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $365 in 2025.
Across 138 payments — averaging $254.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$21K
- Stryker$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$671
- Johnson & Johnson$416
- Contego Medical, Inc$155
- plus $332 from 12 others
Across 29 payments — averaging $2921.30 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.
- Contego Medical, Inc$54K
- Microvention, Inc.$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,55424%
- Speaking & faculty fees$15,44044%
- Travel & lodging$5,90317%
- Food & beverage$5,22115%
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) | 56 | $21,411 |
| Stryker | 43 | $7,496 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $4,636 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $671 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $416 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 3 | $155 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $47 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $38 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Solitaire$10,294
- Pipeline$9,874
- TREVO$5,951
- SYMPHONY$4,416
- MOUNTAINEER$4,416
- SYNAPSE$4,416
- ACIS$4,416
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$513
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$513
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$513
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$513
- SURPASS EVOLVE$263
- SURPASS$244
- SOLITAIRE X$156
- VIPER$137
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$136
- BROADWAY 8$134
- nanoLOCK-L$128
- TARGET$116
- FLOWGATE$115
How this compares
$35,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 99 neurological surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 | 18 | $159 |
| Mupirocin | 40 | $151 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 40 | $115 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lexington
- Matthew TuttLexington$64K
- Craig VanhorneLexington$64K
- David DornbosLexington$35K
- Saman SizdahkhaniLexington$29K
- Rouzbeh Motiei LangroudiLexington$25K
- Ryan HoflerLexington$12K
- Justin FraserLexington$10K
- Justin HilliardLexington$8K
- John GilbertLexington$4K
- Nessa TimoneyLexington$4K
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.