Has Richard Rammo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,802 in general payments to Richard Rammo, MD across 46 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 Richard Rammo, 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 Richard Rammo, 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.

Richard Rammo, MD

Neurological Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1699036590

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $15,000 of the $18,802 with a category attached, or 79.8%. Medtronic accounts for 92.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,856 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $14 in 2025.

$18,802in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $408.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$17K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$720
Nevro Corp.$384
Neuropace, Inc.$157
Zimmer Biomet$127
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$27
plus $59 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Grants$15,00080%
Travel & lodging$2,04211%
Food & beverage$1,6909%
Education$700%

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(2 entities)	26	$17,327
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	6	$720
Nevro Corp.	5	$384
Neuropace, Inc.	2	$157
Zimmer Biomet	2	$127
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$27
Abbott	2	$23
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$22
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$14

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

$18,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$76,131

Medicare patients

Services billed

117

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.

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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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