Jose Ramirez Gomez, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Providence, RINPI 1588076285
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $6,000 of the $8,598 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 69.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,130 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $476 in 2024.
Across 43 payments — averaging $199.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$6K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Stryker$917
- Johnson & Johnson$157
- Medtronic$130
- Acumed LLC$39
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16514%
- Food & beverage$1,43317%
- Education$6,00070%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $6,000 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 22 | $1,340 |
| Stryker | 10 | $917 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $157 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $130 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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
$8,598 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 124 orthopaedic surgery providers in Rhode Island.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Providence
- Edward PaxtonProvidence$244K
- Steven BokshanProvidence$130K
- Eric CohenProvidence$72K
- Erin HaggertyProvidence$67K
- Todd BorensteinProvidence$49K
- Mark PalumboProvidence$39K
- Brian CohenProvidence$32K
- Scott MallozziProvidence$28K
- Peter WagnerProvidence$26K
- Craig EbersonProvidence$26K
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.