Anjay Khandelwal
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,108 of the $75,683 with a category attached, or 66.2%. Avita Medical Americas, LLC accounts for 71.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $24,390 and has fallen 53.4% since, to $11,358 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in OH 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 61 payments — averaging $1240.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$54K
- Polymedics Innovations Inc.$15K
- Polynovo North America LLC$5K
- Lumenis BE Inc$171
- Kerecis Limited$149
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$130
- plus $367 from 8 others
Across 62 payments — averaging $4417.73 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.
- Regeneron$215K
- Polynovo North America LLC$25K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$23K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,10866%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,9887%
- Travel & lodging$17,73523%
- Food & beverage$2,5113%
- Other$3410%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 34 | $54,353 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 8 | $15,017 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $5,495 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $171 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $149 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $103 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $89 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $50 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $26 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- RECELL$45,512
- PERMEADERM$5,376
- Cohealyx$5,376
- Novosorb BTM$5,318
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$448
- optilight$171
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$149
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$149
- STRATAGRAFT$130
How this compares
$75,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.
Other surgery in Akron
- Jonathan ThompsonWest Chester$2.1M
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
- Neilendu KunduCleveland$808K
- Michael MearaColumbus$808K
- Chase WehrleCleveland$741K
- Craig JarrettCleveland$622K
- Greg StarleyCuyahoga Falls$594K
- Ihya GorgunCleveland$527K
- Marshall SpaldingColumbus$450K
- Jason ShoemakerDublin$344K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.