Who Paid My Doc
Ryan Schmelter
Surgery Des Moines, IA Medical Doctor
NPI 1669030128 CMS profile 6830567
1111 6Th Ave, Des Moines, IA 50314
General payments
$3,529
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Ryan Schmelter of Des Moines, IA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,529 across 42 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 63rd percentile of Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $1,301 | 23 | |
| 2024 | General | $1,354 | 12 | |
| 2023 | General | $268 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $302 | 4 | |
| 2019 | General | $305 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Ryan Schmelter
- Surgery median
- Middle half of Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Ryan Schmelter were reported at $1,301. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.
Show as a table
| Year | Ryan Schmelter | Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $305 | $253 | $82–$1,521 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $131 | $40–$706 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $168 | $50–$904 | $132 |
| 2022 | $302 | $224 | $76–$1,218 | $149 |
| 2023 | $268 | $253 | $82–$1,255 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,354 | $279 | $90–$1,381 | $164 |
| 2025 | $1,301 | $280 | $91–$1,259 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 2 drugsPart D claims
26
Drug cost
$97
Branded share of claims
50%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 13 | $59 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 13 | $38 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 15,891 Part D prescribers listed as General Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
42 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.