Ramon Rodriguez, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Biloxi, MSNPI 1356370787
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 45.3% of the total.
Across 323 payments — averaging $72.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- Prime Surgical, LLC$2K
- ALON Medical Technology$2K
- Radius Health, Inc.$500
- plus $3K from 18 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $1811.32 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.
- Pfizer$20K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00021%
- Travel & lodging$5,23822%
- Food & beverage$11,84550%
- Education$1,0354%
- Gifts$3511%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 204 | $10,623 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $3,260 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $3,134 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 9 | $1,621 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 3 | $1,608 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 23 | $500 |
| Smith+Nephew | 14 | $406 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 6 | $355 |
| DJO, LLC | 9 | $350 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $346 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $221 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $194 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 2 | $167 |
| Vertex | 5 | $159 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $126 |
| Amgen | 7 | $108 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $30 |
| Alvogen Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- INBONE$1,506
- PROPHECY$1,101
- INVISION$871
- PROstep$727
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$581
- INFINITY$403
- SALVATION$388
- CARTIVA$291
- Biomet SpinalPak Non-invasive Spine Fusion Stimulator System$275
- ANCHORAGE$271
- ALLOMATRIX$244
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$221
- ALLOPURE$163
- AXS INFINITY LS$151
- STAR$151
- CellerateRx$137
- Bone Healing-None$136
- IM NAILS$125
- HOFFMANN$121
- CARTIVA SYNTHETIC CARTILAGE IMPLANT$103
How this compares
$23,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 139 | $1,277 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $720 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 78 | $655 |
| Meloxicam | 179 | $508 |
| Gabapentin | 44 | $436 |
| Celecoxib | 29 | $382 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $311 |
| Ibuprofen | 19 | $260 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $245 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 30 | $171 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $163 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $143 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $127 |
| Mupirocin | 11 | $78 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Biloxi
- Henry LeisBiloxi$13K
- Yekaterina KarpitskayaBiloxi$9K
- Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
- George van OstenTupelo$322K
- Edward HobgoodJackson$267K
- Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
- Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
- Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
- Jeff AlmandJackson$109K
- Spencer MontgomeryJackson$90K
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.