Michael Ruma
Maternal & Fetal Medicine · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1609910900
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $580,586 of the $888,756 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gen-probe, Inc. at 45.6% of the total.
Across 430 payments — averaging $2066.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gen-probe, Inc.$405K
- Philips North America LLC$284K
- Hologic Inc$97K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$95K
- Biogen$6K
- Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc.$533
- plus $245 from 2 others
Across 41 payments — averaging $5348.51 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.
- Philips North America LLC$174K
- Cytyc Corporation$45K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$580,58665%
- Speaking & faculty fees$219,45125%
- Travel & lodging$76,9829%
- Food & beverage$11,7381%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gen-probe, Inc. | 55 | $404,891 |
| Philips North America LLC | 233 | $284,402 |
| Hologic Inc | 21 | $97,218 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 109 | $95,359 |
| Biogen | 5 | $6,108 |
| Gen-probe Sales & Service, Inc. | 5 | $533 |
| Gauss Surgical Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Cytyc Prenatal Products Corp. | 1 | $101 |
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.
- Aptima$207,778
- FETAL FIBRONECTIN ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY$125,006
- (1658) Clinical Educ Ultrasound$111,360
- Educ Ultrasound$56,900
- US Undivided Serv$32,757
- (7881) Ultrasound Und$16,137
- EPIQ 7G$12,781
- Clin Educ US$11,825
- (1621) Undivided Service$11,330
- RS Ultrasound undiv$10,897
- US Und$6,471
- (9688) EPIQ Elite G$5,666
- Fetal Fibronectin$4,893
- THINPREP 2000 PROCESSOR$4,119
- Zurzuvae$3,269
- (AJ5) Market BF Marketing$2,424
- other additional services$2,200
- (BJ7) EPIQ Elite W$305
- BTX$288
- TLIIQ SYSTEM$226
How this compares
Too few maternal & fetal medicine providers in New Mexicoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other maternal & fetal medicine in Albuquerque
- Jose Gonzalez SanchezAlbuquerque$2K
- Conrad ChaoAlbuquerque$164
- Steffen BrownAlbuquerque$116
- Trevor QuinerAlbuquerque$113
- Joses JainAlbuquerque$86
- Christopher CoxAlbuquerque$73
- Matthew BrennanAlbuquerque$54
- Stephanie HedstromAlbuquerque$49
- Timothy HurleyAlbuquerque$39
- Madhurima KeerthyAlbuquerque$27
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.