Has Vytautas Ringus, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $332,123 in general payments to Vytautas Ringus, MD across 326 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 Vytautas Ringus, 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 Vytautas Ringus, 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.

Vytautas Ringus, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Norman, OKNPI 1548471048

Payments from drug & device makers

$332,123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 326 payments — averaging $1018.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Restor3d, Inc.$116K
Novastep Inc.$91K
Linvatec Corporation$41K
Medshape, Inc.$22K
Trilliant Surgical LLC.$21K
International Life Sciences$20K
plus $22K from 35 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$55,03820%
Consulting fees$162,26260%
Travel & lodging$40,16215%
Food & beverage$11,4954%
Education$2,7501%

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
Restor3d, Inc.	42	$115,541
Novastep Inc.	51	$91,144
Linvatec Corporation	37	$40,833
Medshape, Inc.	27	$21,786
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	12	$20,599
International Life Sciences	10	$19,888
CIT Ortho LLC	2	$4,250
One Surgical, Inc.	2	$3,135
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$3,002
Surgebright Inc.	6	$2,750
Stryker(2 entities)	61	$2,235
In2bones USA, LLC	3	$1,650
Winter Innovations, Inc.	1	$1,200
Flower Orthopedics Coporation	17	$1,135
Johnson & Johnson	7	$486
Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc.	1	$400
Bioventus LLC	5	$285
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$185
Kerecis Limited	2	$177
Abanza Inc.	4	$177
Stimlabs LLC	2	$154
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$149
Conmed Corporation	1	$148
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$146
Encore Medical, LP	1	$96
Pylant Medical	2	$88
Ossio Inc	1	$68
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$63
Boston Scientific	1	$51
Medline Industries LP	1	$47
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	2	$40
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$32
Trice Medical, Inc.	1	$29
Abbott	1	$29
Convatec Inc.	1	$24
Amgen	1	$22
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$17
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$16
Medtronic	1	$13
AbbVie	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.

BioBrace 23mm$35,035
HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$29,145
AIRLOCK CENTROLOCK$27,515
AIRLOCK Forefoot/Midfoot Plating$26,576
NEXIS$21,350
PECA Bunion Correction System$20,340
FLEXBAND$17,848
Trilliant Arsenal Plating System$17,587
DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$12,315
DynaNail Hybrid$11,250
DynaNail Mini$10,500
DynaClip Bone Fixation System, Quattro, 22mm x 20mm x 20mm$8,374
CENTROLOCK MIS Bunion Correction$8,187
Hercules$7,000
CIT Ortho$4,250
DynaNail$2,131
PECA-C Compressive Implants$1,424
Lapidus Correction Jig, Right$1,018
Arsenal Ankle$651
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$633

How this compares

$332,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$180,335

Medicare patients

201

Services billed

1,695

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	130	$1,894
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	122	$1,516
Ibuprofen	27	$371
Gabapentin	32	$252
Cephalexin	22	$170
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	16	$127
Hydromorphone Hcl	23	$126
Oxycodone Hcl	13	$104
Methylprednisolone	16	$83
Tramadol Hcl	19	$72
Meloxicam	16	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Norman

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Joshua WilsonNorman$40K
Jeremiah MaupinNorman$20K
James BondNorman$16K
Yogesh MittalTulsa$6.7M
Andrew ParkinsonOklahoma City$3.1M
Brian ChalkinTulsa$1.9M
Carlan YatesOklahoma City$772K
Bradley ReddickOklahoma City$573K
Jason EmersonOklahoma City$189K

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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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