Amitava Gupta, MD
Hand Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1528023561
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $110,151 of the $175,438 with a category attached, or 62.8%. Stryker accounts for 62.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $40,270 and has fallen 92.0% since, to $3,209 in 2025. Among hand surgery clinicians in KY 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 109 payments — averaging $1609.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$110K
- Encore Medical, LP$31K
- Synthes GmbH$31K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$2K
- Medartis Inc.$126
- Merck$115
- plus $259 from 5 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $2457.75 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.
- Zimmer Biomet$31K
- Stryker$3K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$110,15163%
- Consulting fees$31,13818%
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,37413%
- Travel & lodging$7,9625%
- Food & beverage$1,4921%
- Education$2,3211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 24 | $110,151 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 29 | $31,359 |
| Synthes GmbH | 45 | $31,101 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 3 | $2,327 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Merck | 1 | $115 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $114 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $83 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$175,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 56 hand 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 120 | $505 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 44 | $350 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Louisville
- Tuna OzyurekogluLouisville$25K
- Stephanie MerimeeLouisville$16K
- Luke RobinsonLouisville$12K
- Monica PecacheLouisville$11K
- Rodrigo Moreno GarciaLouisville$10K
- Michelle PalazzoLouisville$7K
- Jorge Quintero PerezLouisville$7K
- Elkin Galvis LeonLouisville$6K
- Kjell van RoyenLouisville$6K
- Yousif El-GammalLouisville$4K
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.