Has Ronald Hanson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,258 in general payments to Ronald Hanson, MD across 13 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 Ronald Hanson, 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 Ronald Hanson, 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.

Ronald Hanson, MD

Otolaryngology · Saint Cloud, MNNPI 1972564987

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,625 of the $2,258 with a category attached, or 72.0%. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,701 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $64 in 2025.

$2,258in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $173.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
GSK$28
Medtronic$17
Microtransponder, Inc.$17
Aerin Medical Inc.$4

$57,732in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $3396.01 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$58K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,62572%
Food & beverage$63328%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	8	$2,192
GSK	2	$28
Medtronic	1	$17
Microtransponder, Inc.	1	$17
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$4

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.

Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$2,010

How this compares

$2,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 181 otolaryngology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$110,591

Medicare patients

398

Services billed

1,053

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
Azelastine Hcl	66	$1,269
Pilocarpine Hcl	19	$1,150
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	50	$775
Fluticasone Propionate	49	$641
Omeprazole	45	$452
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	58	$363
Cefdinir	17	$346
Celecoxib	12	$206
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	18	$204
Nystatin	13	$160
Amoxicillin	17	$135
Cephalexin	31	$124
Azithromycin	18	$71
Pantoprazole Sodium	12	$66
Prednisone	14	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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