Sebastian Ruggeri, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Phoenix, AZNPI 1922076090
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 32 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Stryker accounts for 74.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $382 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $33 in 2025.
Across 32 payments — averaging $31.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$739
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$110
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$29
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$26
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$24
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$23
- plus $48 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$999100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 18 | $739 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $110 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $24 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
Too few surgery of the hand providers in Arizonato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $403 |
| Cephalexin | 57 | $262 |
| Gabapentin | 28 | $206 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 14 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Phoenix
- Lloyd ChampagnePhoenix$76K
- Jozef ZoldosPhoenix$37K
- Jonathan YangPhoenix$5K
- Allen LiuPhoenix$3K
- Robert ReitzPhoenix$3K
- Brent SchultzPhoenix$2K
- Michael LarsenPhoenix$2K
- Joshua MirrerPhoenix$856
- Steven BastianPhoenix$723
- Benjamin WeiPhoenix$403
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.