Seetharam Bhat Kulthe Ramesh, MD
Urology · Syracuse, NYNPI 1013490309
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $103.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Teleflex LLC$3K
- Coloplast$3K
- Cook Incorporated$754
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$512
- Pfizer$214
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,56244%
- Food & beverage$3,98832%
- Education$3,03524%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $3,442 |
| Teleflex LLC | 10 | $3,125 |
| Coloplast | 27 | $2,796 |
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $754 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 6 | $512 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $214 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 8 | $211 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $174 |
| Astellas Pharma Inc | 1 | $141 |
| Bayer | 6 | $139 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 6 | $129 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 4 | $103 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $100 |
| Dentsply IH AB | 2 | $89 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Ambu Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Novartis | 1 | $29 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Dentsply IH Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $27 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,410
- UroLift$1,921
- ALTIS$1,186
- RESTORELLE$1,013
- S~Curve$639
- AquaBeam Robotic System$268
- Luja Coude$261
- XTANDI$241
- AQUABEAM SYSTEM$121
How this compares
$12,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 19 | $61,838 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 28 | $18,104 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 635 | $8,767 |
| Silodosin | 95 | $8,662 |
| Tadalafil | 24 | $6,356 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 36 | $4,434 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 18 | $2,490 |
| Finasteride | 154 | $1,640 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 78 | $1,482 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate | 14 | $1,432 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 33 | $660 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 21 | $501 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 56 | $384 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 12 | $259 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 24 | $226 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx | $17 | $61,83819 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $70 | $18,10428 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 952 urology providers in New York.
Other urology in Syracuse
- Christopher PieczonkaSyracuse$31.2M
- Gennady BratslavskySyracuse$2.5M
- Joseph JacobSyracuse$1M
- David AlbalaSyracuse$640K
- Po LamSyracuse$579K
- Guarionex DecastroNew York$5.7M
- Mitchell EfrosGarden City$4.2M
- James McKiernanNew York$4.1M
- William HuangNew York$3.9M
- Jed KaminetskyMiddle Village$3.5M
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.