Edwin Ramos
Neurological Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1447409115
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,424 of the $5,156 with a category attached, or 66.4%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 50.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,801 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $37 in 2025.
Across 26 payments — averaging $198.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$180
- Icotec Medical Inc.$105
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$20
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$17
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,42466%
- Food & beverage$1,73234%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $2,601 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $2,220 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $180 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $20 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals 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.
- CD HORIZON$1,666
- MARS 3V$1,370
- Excelsius - GPS$798
- Pulse$194
- FORTIFY$193
- Other - Miscellaneous$180
- O-ARM-Spine$180
- Vader one Pedicle System MIS$105
How this compares
$5,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 302 neurological surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 57 | $475 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Chicago
- Tyler KoskiChicago$2.3M
- Vincent TraynelisChicago$1.8M
- Sergey NeckryshChicago$1.6M
- Richard FesslerChicago$910K
- John OtooleChicago$593K
- Fady CharbelChicago$507K
- Issam AwadChicago$266K
- Mohamad BydonChicago$163K
- Ali AlarajChicago$155K
- Konstantin SlavinChicago$153K
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.