Ronald Pohl, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Lima, OHNPI 1700875051
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 47 payments — averaging $77.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$748
- Endologix LLC$696
- Atricure, Inc.$571
- Boston Scientific$142
- Abiomed$99
- plus $263 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,03056%
- Food & beverage$1,62144%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $1,131 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $748 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $696 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $571 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $142 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $77 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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
$3,651 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 270 | $2,418 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 67 | $603 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 51 | $488 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $222 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 18 | $99 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $97 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $80 |
| Prednisone | 24 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Lima
- Sirish ParvathaneniLima$57K
- Michael MorontToledo$2.4M
- Kathryn O'KeefeCincinnati$1.3M
- Edward SolteszCleveland$1.2M
- Alan Marc GillinovCleveland$1M
- Alejandro BribriescoCleveland$968K
- Alan MarkowitzCleveland$951K
- Andrew ManganaroWilmington$951K
- Daniel WatsonColumbus$946K
- Eric RoselliCleveland$933K
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.