Has Suzanne Ruiz received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,441 in general payments to Suzanne Ruiz across 43 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 Suzanne Ruiz 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 Suzanne Ruiz 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.

Suzanne Ruiz

Family · Munster, INNPI 1184719700

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.5% of the total across 43 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among family clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$4,441in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $103.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$694
Johnson & Johnson$407
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$375
Edwards Lifesciences$335
Optinose US, Inc.$258
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$237
plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,421100%
Education$200%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	7	$694
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$407
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$375
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$335
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$258
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$237
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$209
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$184
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$145
Sanofi	1	$125
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	1	$121
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$121
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$114
Intuitive Surgical	1	$112
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$110
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$100
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$99
Exact Sciences	1	$98
AbbVie	1	$95
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$95
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$94
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$90
Novo Nordisk	1	$89
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$76
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$44
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	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.

Inspire$455
REXULTI$375
PASCAL$335
Xhance$258
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$169
INGREZZA$125
AUBAGIO$125
AMVUTTRA$125
Flexitouch Plus$125
Entre Plus$125
REZDIFFRA$121
KRAZATI$121
Monarch Platform$118
Reblozyl$116
AUSTEDO$114
ONGENTYS$112
Da Vinci Surgical System$112
Attruby$110

How this compares

$4,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,392 family providers in Indiana.

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Other family in Munster

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Sharon HennMunster$19K
Donna WinterrowdMunster$17K
Jacquelyn AdleyMunster$16K
Tina SizemoreIndianapolis$888K
Kathalene Keller RineyEvansville$383K
Robin AndersonPortage$333K
Marla MosesIndianapolis$142K
Justin BrownFort Wayne$142K
Lacey MatheisEvansville$139K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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