Ronnie Word, MD
Vascular Surgery · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1629175757
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 230 payments — averaging $68.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$5K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Abbott$898
- plus $5K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,66917%
- Food & beverage$13,03583%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 40 | $4,634 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 17 | $1,470 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 28 | $1,322 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 23 | $1,208 |
| Endologix LLC | 8 | $1,197 |
| Abbott | 11 | $898 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 10 | $618 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $598 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $590 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $485 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 16 | $421 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 7 | $359 |
| Philips North America LLC | 10 | $307 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $263 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $219 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $178 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $158 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $140 |
| Stryker | 2 | $70 |
| BD | 1 | $43 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $43 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Intact Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Indigo System$2,381
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,135
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$858
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$790
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$790
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$790
- Penumbra System$676
- Zilver PTX$457
- XARELTO$394
- SUPERA$379
- Indigo$379
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$327
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$327
- ACCULINK$285
- Barostim Neo System$263
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$263
- Sublime Microcatheter, 018, 200cm, Straight$263
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$263
- Pounce Thrombectomy$263
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$263
How this compares
$15,704 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 385 vascular surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 80 | $1,502 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 23 | $260 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Fort Myers
- Ajay KalraFort Myers$70K
- John MossFort Myers$43K
- Samuel TapperStuart$1.3M
- Erin MooreJacksonville$488K
- Mariano ArosemenaBradenton$472K
- Woongchae LeeBoca Raton$414K
- Manuel Perez IzquierdoOrlando$396K
- Murray ShamesTampa$354K
- Joseph RicottaDelray Beach$344K
- Martin BackTampa$303K
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.