Ramiro Cavazos, MD
Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1619977055
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 200 payments — averaging $20.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$915
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$562
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$396
- Intuitive Surgical$330
- Lexington Medical, Inc.$275
- Novo Nordisk$244
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,11699%
- Entertainment$611%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 54 | $915 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 34 | $562 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 20 | $396 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $330 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 9 | $275 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $244 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $158 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Vertex | 4 | $115 |
| Covidien LP | 7 | $102 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $91 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $91 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $71 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $50 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $36 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $5 |
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
$4,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.
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 surgery in San Antonio
- Richard PetersonSan Antonio$323K
- Joseph KaramSan Antonio$293K
- Richard EnglehardtSan Antonio$229K
- John PilcherSan Antonio$214K
- Susannah NicholsonSan Antonio$161K
- John MeterskySan Antonio$158K
- Funda MericHouston$20.6M
- Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
- Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
- Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M
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.