Akbar Nawab, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1346241841
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 411 payments — averaging $2482.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$1M
- Arthrex$13K
- Smith+Nephew$453
- Blue Surgical LLC$204
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$151
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$110
- plus $437 from 12 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $4167.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$67K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 369 | $1,005,670 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $13,110 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $453 |
| Blue Surgical LLC | 6 | $204 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $151 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $90 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $81 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Stryker | 1 | $40 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,020,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Louisville
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.9M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.6M
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$584K
- Rodolfo Zamora RendichLouisville$539K
- Tyler KellerLouisville$401K
- Madhusudhan YakkantiLouisville$360K
- Kevin HarreldLouisville$313K
- George QuillLouisville$304K
- Donald PomeroyLouisville$278K
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.