Rute Lameiro
Nurse Practitioner · Providence, RINPI 1619425295
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,080 of the $2,516 with a category attached, or 82.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 29.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $757 and has fallen 71.5% since, to $216 in 2025. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in RI 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 31 payments — averaging $81.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$749
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$629
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$419
- Boston Scientific$221
- Abbott$183
- Philips North America LLC$141
- plus $176 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40016%
- Travel & lodging$361%
- Food & beverage$2,08083%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 8 | $749 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $629 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $419 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $221 |
| Abbott | 5 | $183 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $141 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$2,516 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 396 nurse practitioner providers in Rhode Island.
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 | 61 | $685 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $106 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Providence
- Lea KellyProvidence$5K
- Evelyn AsanteProvidence$3K
- Gino PaolucciProvidence$1K
- Stephanie PompeiProvidence$716
- Sara PetitProvidence$680
- Wendy YoungProvidence$599
- Julia HoranProvidence$598
- Elizabeth WelchProvidence$571
- Lisa BoninProvidence$521
- E Massenburg-CorryProvidence$439
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.