Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Ram

Device Cardiothoracic

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General payments

$1,035,444

235 payments

Research payments

$0

0 payments

Through program year 2025, $1,035,444 in general payments and $0 in research payments were reported against Ram (Cardiothoracic).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $174,200 60
2024 General $200,669 32
2023 General $226,864 12
2022 General $77,830 6
2021 General $141,739 11
2020 General $81,226 24
2019 General $132,917 90

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Lsi Solutions Inc $1,035,444 235 payments
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Michael Defrain Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Pensacola, FL $64,757 37% · 5 payments
  2. Mahesh Ramchandani Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TX $27,567 16% · 5 payments
  3. Mario Castillo-Sang Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Edgewood, KY $20,275 12% · 5 payments
  4. Juan Penaranda-Canal Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Edgewood, KY $14,106 8% · 2 payments
  5. Gianluca Torregrossa Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Chicago, IL $11,405 7% · 2 payments

The top 5 of 41 recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

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Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $155,820 89% · 27 practitioners
  2. Physician Assistant, Surgical Physician Assistant $16,961 10% · 5 practitioners
  3. Physician Assistant $1,248 <1% · 5 practitioners
  4. Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Specialist Ophthalmology $85 <1% · 1 practitioner
  5. Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner $66 <1% · 2 practitioners

The top 5 of 6 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

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Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. Florida $72,964 42% · 7 recipients
  2. Kentucky $34,404 20% · 3 recipients
  3. Texas $32,536 19% · 2 recipients
  4. Illinois $11,629 7% · 2 recipients
  5. Pennsylvania $10,979 6% · 3 recipients

The top 5 of 13 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

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235 general

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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