Ronald Kline, MD
Vascular Surgery · Morehead, KYNPI 1023013158
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $9,600 of the $15,795 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,577 and has fallen 91.0% since, to $954 in 2025.
Across 205 payments — averaging $77.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$10K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$635
- Bolton Medical Inc$583
- Endologix LLC$572
- Boston Scientific$448
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,60061%
- Food & beverage$6,19539%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $9,600 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 60 | $1,273 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $635 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 12 | $583 |
| Endologix LLC | 5 | $572 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $448 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $408 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 15 | $344 |
| Stryker | 4 | $218 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $207 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $205 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $196 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $192 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $129 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $93 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $83 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $57 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $41 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $32 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $20 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Cook Medical IAA$6,400
- Cook Medical Stents$3,200
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$728
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$728
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$220
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$165
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$158
- Torus Stent Graft System$148
- ENDOCROSS Device$148
- (6554) Peripheral Vascular Undivided$118
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$113
- Zilver PTX$112
- Lunderquist$112
How this compares
$15,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $9,876 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 69 | $293 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Morehead
- Amit DwivediLouisville$406K
- Igor VoskresenskyLexington$99K
- Nick AbediLexington$95K
- Abindra SigdelLouisville$84K
- Samuel TyagiLexington$70K
- Ferenc NagyLouisville$47K
- Gregory SchmiederLouisville$44K
- Donald BrownSomerset$29K
- Brian GrantBowling Green$27K
- Alaa AddasiPikeville$25K
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.