Jean Marie Ruddy, MD
Vascular Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1770665796
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $39,600 of the $54,011 with a category attached, or 73.3%. Cvrx, Inc. accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $21,247 and has fallen 75.7% since, to $5,170 in 2025.
Across 108 payments — averaging $500.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cvrx, Inc.$51K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$448
- Medtronic$294
- Innovation Technologies Inc$156
- KCI USA, Inc.$112
- plus $404 from 5 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $6763.91 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.
- Cvrx, Inc.$156K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$39,60073%
- Travel & lodging$9,84118%
- Food & beverage$4,5698%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cvrx, Inc. | 79 | $51,345 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 14 | $1,251 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $448 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $294 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $156 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Abbott | 1 | $97 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $76 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $70 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
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
$54,011 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 99 vascular 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.
Other vascular surgery in Charleston
- Ravi VeeraswamyCharleston$164K
- Kristian HochbergCharleston$106K
- Zachary ArthursCharleston$84K
- Adam KeeferCharleston$32K
- Richard ShiCharleston$20K
- Matthew AndersonCharleston$18K
- Tru DangCharleston$17K
- Adam TaniousCharleston$16K
- Sean HislopCharleston$15K
- John GedneyCharleston$12K
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.