Has Ramesh Kumar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $565 in general payments to Ramesh Kumar, MD across 13 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ramesh Kumar, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ramesh Kumar, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ramesh Kumar, MD

Hospitalist · Fayetteville, GANPI 1255609186

Payments from drug & device makers

$565in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $43.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$192
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$118
AbbVie$110
Gilead$106
Boehringer Ingelheim$21
AstraZeneca$18

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$565100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Johnson & Johnson	7	$192
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$118
AbbVie	1	$110
Gilead	1	$106
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$21
AstraZeneca	1	$18

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

$565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 812 hospitalist providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$100,176

Medicare patients

340

Services billed

935

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	19	$11,790
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	14	$356
Tamsulosin Hcl	17	$170
Cephalexin	17	$136
Metronidazole	12	$83
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	11	$76
Pantoprazole Sodium	26	$75
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	12	$73
Atorvastatin Calcium	18	$72
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	15	$60
Levofloxacin	14	$44
Metoprolol Succinate	13	$43
Metoprolol Tartrate	14	$35
Carvedilol	13	$35
Prednisone	17	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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