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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,610 in general payments to Richard Rhiew, MD across 57 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 Rhiew, 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 Rhiew, 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 Rhiew, MD

Neurological Surgery · Westlake, OHNPI 1518187384

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,610in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $63.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$2K
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC$284
Medtronic$281
Amgen$224
Arthrex$205
Painteq LLC$69
plus $253 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1604%
Travel & lodging$2,21161%
Food & beverage$1,23934%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	25	$2,294
Nexus Medical Technologies LLC	2	$284
Medtronic(2 entities)	10	$281
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$224
Arthrex	3	$205
Painteq LLC	2	$69
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	5	$66
Theragen, Inc.	2	$53
AbbVie	2	$51
MML US, Inc.	1	$36
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	2	$32
DJO, LLC	1	$15

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

$3,610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 301 neurological surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$181,394

Medicare patients

185

Services billed

832

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	130	$694
Clindamycin Hcl	13	$190
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$89
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$63
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$37
Tramadol Hcl	15	$31
Cephalexin	12	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Westlake

Rishi GoelWestlake$56K
Tiffany HodgesCleveland$1.2M
Mark BainCleveland$1M
Ali RezaiColumbus$1M
Abdi MohitCleveland$884K
Andrew SloanDayton$850K
Andrew GrossbachColumbus$814K
William ZerickWesterville$778K
Patrick YoussefColumbus$729K
Stephanus ViljoenColumbus$717K

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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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