Kenneth Ruiz
Surgical · New York, NYNPI 1407133515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $77,040 of the $93,001 with a category attached, or 82.8%. AbbVie accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $72,419, more than ten times the $70 reported in 2021. Among surgical clinicians in NY 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.
Across 258 payments — averaging $360.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$91K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
- Merz North America, Inc.$144
- Baxter Healthcare$77
- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$70
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$33
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6701%
- Speaking & faculty fees$77,04083%
- Travel & lodging$8,3219%
- Food & beverage$6,9717%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 231 | $91,496 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $1,143 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $77 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $33 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
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
$93,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,544 surgical providers in New York.
Other surgical in New York
- Nicole FeinNew York$225K
- Terry LinNew York$70K
- James DoolittleNew York$46K
- Irina KommNew York$39K
- Catherine ChoyNew York$24K
- Marianne PistilliNew York$21K
- Ami DalalNew York$16K
- Christopher PrezzanoNew York$14K
- Scott SchneiderNew York$11K
- Amy LuckertNew York$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.