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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,292 in general payments to Ronald Linehan, MD across 273 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 Linehan, 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 Linehan, 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 Linehan, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Lancaster, OHNPI 1013917426

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (41.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spinal Simplicity, LLC accounts for 70.1% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$26,292in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 273 payments — averaging $96.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spinal Simplicity, LLC$18K
Medtronic$3K
Boston Scientific$2K
Abbott$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$472
Vertos Medical, Inc.$248
plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7503%
Travel & lodging$7,96430%
Food & beverage$6,72126%
Education$10,85841%

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
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	63	$18,422
Medtronic	49	$2,740
Boston Scientific	70	$2,043
Abbott	12	$1,315
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	10	$472
Vertos Medical, Inc.	7	$248
MML US, Inc.	4	$197
Amgen	23	$166
Painteq LLC	5	$132
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$104
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$104
Stryker	3	$66
Nalu Medical, Inc.	3	$57
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$38
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	3	$37
Lundbeck LLC	2	$34
Pfizer	2	$30
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16
Nevro Corp.	1	$15
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$15
Spinefrontier, Inc.	1	$14
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$11

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

$26,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$265,341

Medicare patients

228

Services billed

4,890

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
Gabapentin	441	$6,553
Etodolac	233	$6,403
Baclofen	289	$3,324
Buprenorphine	21	$2,932
Pregabalin	61	$1,867
Tizanidine Hcl	120	$1,505
Duloxetine Hcl	30	$921
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	38	$554
Oxaprozin	17	$431
Ibuprofen	41	$357
Naproxen	32	$300
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	57	$198
IbuIbuprofen	13	$116
Tramadol Hcl	82	$104
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$83

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Lancaster

Gladstone McDowellColumbus$660K
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Sara NashiCincinnati$116K
Jaudat MahmoodKent$97K
Omar AliSpringfield$67K
Dustin ReynoldsWesterville$61K
James OttingToledo$47K
Mark MalinowskiChillicothe$39K
David WalegaColumbus$37K
Vivekanand ManochaMason$22K

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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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