Ryan Lucero
Surgical Critical Care · Columbus, OHNPI 1366785727
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $983 of the $1,563 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 67.6% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,268 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $60 in 2025.
Across 17 payments — averaging $91.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Teleflex LLC$120
- Johnson & Johnson$99
- Haemonetics Corporation$98
- Smith+Nephew$97
- Intuitive Surgical$31
- plus $61 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98363%
- Food & beverage$56536%
- Education$161%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,057 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $99 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $98 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $97 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $31 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 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.
- AdvantageRib$885
- QuikClot$120
How this compares
$1,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 79 surgical critical care 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.
Other surgical critical care in Columbus
- Jennifer Knight DavisColumbus$66K
- Daniel EifermanColumbus$60K
- Nicole BernalColumbus$27K
- Erich WesselColumbus$9K
- Brian WeissColumbus$9K
- Carrie ValdezColumbus$8K
- Yizhi ShanColumbus$7K
- Kwang SuhColumbus$6K
- Michal RadomskiColumbus$6K
- Paul BeeryColumbus$5K
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.