Ruben Olivares, MD
Urology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1962159012
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $117,320 of the $183,880 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Medtronic accounts for 82.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $113,506 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $9,846 in 2025. Among urology clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 99 payments — averaging $1857.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$152K
- EDAP Technomed Inc$28K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$3K
- Koelis Inc.$80
- Convatec Inc.$28
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$14
- plus $4 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$36,86920%
- Speaking & faculty fees$117,32064%
- Travel & lodging$24,37713%
- Food & beverage$5,3143%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 38 | $152,419 |
| EDAP Technomed Inc | 42 | $27,872 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 13 | $3,463 |
| Koelis Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 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.
How this compares
$183,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 485 urology providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 29 | $264 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Cleveland
- Howard GoldmanCleveland$721K
- Sriharan SivalingamCleveland$276K
- Sandip VasavadaCleveland$263K
- Jihad KaoukCleveland$234K
- Raymond RackleyCleveland$152K
- Petar BajicCleveland$149K
- Jorge Gutierrez AcevesCleveland$90K
- Kenneth AngermeierCleveland$69K
- Roger KhouriCleveland$57K
- Xinyuan ZhangCleveland$51K
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.