Has Ryan Simmons, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,592 in general payments to Ryan Simmons, MD across 57 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ryan Simmons, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ryan Simmons, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ryan Simmons, MD

Otolaryngology · Tupelo, MSNPI 1548271448

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 57 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 27.6% of the total.

$1,592in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $27.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$439
Intersect ENT, Inc.$213
Aerin Medical Inc.$175
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$144
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$138
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$103
plus $381 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,592100%

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
Sanofi	13	$439
Intersect ENT, Inc.	4	$213
Aerin Medical Inc.	7	$175
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$144
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$138
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$103
GSK	4	$71
Acclarent, Inc	3	$60
Stryker	2	$51
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$48
Olympus America Inc.	2	$30
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$23
Coopersurgical, Inc.	1	$20
Medtronic	1	$18
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	1	$17
Merck	1	$15
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Boston Scientific	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.

SINUVA$104

How this compares

$1,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 97 otolaryngology providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$218,245

Medicare patients

782

Services billed

2,434

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
Ipratropium Bromide	194	$5,518
Fluticasone Propionate	308	$3,799
Famotidine	304	$2,317
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	42	$1,953
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	14	$1,541
Cefdinir	73	$1,263
Omeprazole	86	$674
Montelukast Sodium	103	$612
Clotrimazole	18	$476
Azelastine Hcl	27	$439
Ofloxacin	12	$372
Mupirocin	37	$278
Meclizine Hcl	17	$198
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$197
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$195

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Tupelo

Robert YarberTupelo$7K
Trace PalmerTupelo$4K
Matthew StevensTupelo$2K
James BerryTupelo$2K
Kurt NelsonTupelo$2K
Raymond WeissOcean Springs$258K
Charles WilsonOcean Springs$7K
Gregory PippinMcComb$6K
Savannah StocktonBrookhaven$6K
John SchweinfurthJackson$6K

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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.

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