Ryan Helmick, MD
Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1972792117
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,325 of the $6,368 with a category attached, or 99.3%. Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 2 payments — averaging $3183.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$43
Across 8 payments — averaging $17,127 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$136K
- Transmedics, Inc.$539
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,32599%
- Food & beverage$431%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $6,325 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $43 |
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.
- Envarsus$6,325
How this compares
$6,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 516 surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 23 | $2,470 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 26 | $156 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $87 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Memphis
- Douglas HammondMemphis$83K
- Guy VoellerMemphis$42K
- George WoodmanMemphis$41K
- Sara SouleMemphis$16K
- Heath BroussardJackson$688K
- Eric WallaceCookeville$529K
- John RobertsonJohnson City$432K
- Jaime Ponce-PortugalChattanooga$412K
- Evelio RodriguezNashville$362K
- Mathew NinanNashville$298K
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.