Ajay Kanakamedala, MD
Sports Medicine · Easton, PANPI 1477040616
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $28,750 of the $44,774 with a category attached, or 64.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 48.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $34,099 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $1,001 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 98 payments — averaging $456.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$22K
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- DJO, LLC$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Novus Surgical Consultants$1K
- Suvon Surgical LLC$1K
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$28,75064%
- Travel & lodging$4,2299%
- Food & beverage$4,65810%
- Education$7,13816%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 21 | $21,790 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $13,704 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $2,813 |
| Stryker | 26 | $2,662 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 23 | $1,281 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 2 | $614 |
| Bodycad USA Corp | 2 | $286 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $168 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $27 |
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.
- MICRORAPTOR$1,878
- Healicoil$1,308
- Q-FIX$1,192
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$871
- ICONIX$859
- Ultrabraid$799
- EQUINOXE$563
- Fine Osteotomy$286
- CAP-FIX$281
- SALVATION$171
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$160
- MACI$125
- Geminus$118
- Align$118
- IJS$118
- Implate$118
How this compares
$44,774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 23 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Easton
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Marco AlcalaCanonsburg$54K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
- Tyler HauerPittsburgh$48K
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.