Has Ratnakar Veeramachaneni, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,105 in general payments to Ratnakar Veeramachaneni, MD across 121 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 Ratnakar Veeramachaneni, 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 Ratnakar Veeramachaneni, 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.

Ratnakar Veeramachaneni, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Greenville, NCNPI 1346771870

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.6%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 58.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,987 and has fallen 78.2% since, to $867 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$8,105in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $66.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$5K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$322
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$312
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$264
AbbVie$206
plus $650 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Grants$3,33341%
Travel & lodging$83010%
Food & beverage$3,94249%

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
Boston Scientific	35	$4,705
Medtronic	30	$1,646
Abbott	16	$322
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	15	$312
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	5	$264
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$206
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$181
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$178
Curonix LLC	1	$80
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$40
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$38
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$37
Nevro Corp.	2	$32
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$31
Avanos Medical	1	$19
Scilex Pharmaceuticals 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.

How this compares

$8,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$163,726

Medicare patients

172

Services billed

2,541

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
Buprenorphine	18	$4,325
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	71	$2,618
Naloxone Hcl	22	$1,413
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	38	$1,026
Gabapentin	74	$936
Oxycodone Hcl	45	$695
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	29	$468
Tizanidine Hcl	19	$426
Tramadol Hcl	57	$407
Celecoxib	22	$350
Pregabalin	14	$195
Methylprednisolone	25	$127

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Greenville

Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
Billy SmithGreenville$10K
Jason GuoGreenville$3K
William RieckGreenville$3K
Patrick CleggGreenville$2K
Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
Krishna BhatSanford$30K
Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
Jimmy MaliDurham$20K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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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