Ramon Valderrama
Neurology · New York, NYNPI 1922104215
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 254 payments — averaging $25.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$475
- Pfizer$434
- Lilly USA, LLC$391
- Biogen$318
- Abbott$298
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$471%
- Food & beverage$6,36699%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 83 | $1,787 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $475 |
| Pfizer | 28 | $434 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $391 |
| Biogen | 16 | $318 |
| Abbott | 6 | $298 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 10 | $285 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $279 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $249 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $232 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $224 |
| Corium, LLC | 14 | $203 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $166 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $154 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $148 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| GE HealthCare | 10 | $95 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $88 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $60 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $24 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$6,413 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,623 neurology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl | 42 | $24,529 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 18 | $23,734 |
| Memantine Hcl | 470 | $6,053 |
| Rivastigmine | 12 | $1,745 |
| DilantinPhenytoin Sodium Extended | 13 | $1,211 |
| Gabapentin | 151 | $1,125 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 136 | $780 |
| Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine | 12 | $635 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 148 | $619 |
| Risperidone | 70 | $586 |
| Levetiracetam | 47 | $434 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 45 | $393 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 47 | $377 |
| Carbamazepine | 14 | $376 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 19 | $316 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerNurtec Odt, Dilantin | $434 | $24,94531 claims |
| AbbVieNamzaric | $1,787 | $24,52942 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 1,623 neurology providers in New York.
Other neurology in New York
- Christian GrommesNew York$9.9M
- Ilya KisterNew York$9.5M
- E DorseyNew York$8.5M
- Lauren SchaffNew York$8.2M
- Martin SadowskiNew York$5.4M
- Lawrence HonigNew York$4.9M
- Sheng-Han KuoNew York$3.2M
- Stephen KriegerNew York$3.1M
- Thomas KaleyNew York$2.9M
- Aaron MillerNew York$2.8M
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.