Has Ronak Desai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,180 in general payments to Ronak Desai, MD across 31 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 Ronak Desai, 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 Ronak Desai, 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.

Ronak Desai, MD

Anesthesiology · Dallas, TXNPI 1609033034

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $9,618 of the $12,180 with a category attached, or 79.0%. Avanos Medical accounts for 83.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,432 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $1,105 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$12,180in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $392.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Avanos Medical$10K
Riwospine, Inc.$809
Medtronic$616
Bone Support Inc.$143
Acacia Pharma Inc$123
Merck$116
plus $174 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,61879%
Travel & lodging$1,55313%
Food & beverage$9918%
Education$180%

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
Avanos Medical	8	$10,199
Riwospine, Inc.	2	$809
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$616
Bone Support Inc.	1	$143
Acacia Pharma Inc	2	$123
Merck	7	$116
Masimo Corporation	2	$87
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$46
Mindray DS USA, Inc.	1	$40

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.

ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$10,083
Spine$730
KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$331
INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$149
CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$143
CERAMENT G$143
BARHEMSYS$109

How this compares

$12,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$31,124

Medicare patients

221

Services billed

284

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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