Raghu Ramaswamy, MD
Neurological Surgery · Syracuse, NYNPI 1477861631
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,016 of the $2,337 with a category attached, or 86.3%. Microvention, Inc. accounts for 63.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,127 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $68 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $3,235.
Across 19 payments — averaging $122.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Microvention, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$579
- Medtronic$82
- Johnson & Johnson$50
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$34
- Balt USA, LLC$34
- plus $69 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,01686%
- Food & beverage$32014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Microvention, Inc. | 6 | $1,489 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $579 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $50 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $34 |
| Balt USA, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Stryker | 2 | $30 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 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.
- Penumbra System$528
How this compares
$2,337 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
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 neurological surgery in Syracuse
- Ali HazamaSyracuse$83K
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
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.