Has Avinash Kumar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $137,503 in general payments to Avinash Kumar, MD across 197 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Avinash Kumar, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Avinash Kumar, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Avinash Kumar, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Bradenton, FLNPI 1952377061

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $109,306 of the $137,503 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Stryker accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $42,398 and has fallen 65.0% since, to $14,836 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$137,503in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 197 payments — averaging $697.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$137K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$272
Smith+Nephew$160
MVP Orthopedics Inc$118
Carbofix Orthopedics Inc$50
Boston Scientific$36
plus $81 from 3 others

$519,117in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $13,311 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.

Orthofix Medical, Inc.$454K
Stryker$39K
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$11K
Novartis$6K
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
IBSA Institut Biochimique SA$5K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$109,30679%
Speaking & faculty fees$11,4008%
Travel & lodging$11,8659%
Food & beverage$4,3813%
Education$5510%

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(2 entities)	175	$136,786
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	4	$272
Smith+Nephew	6	$160
MVP Orthopedics Inc	2	$118
Carbofix Orthopedics Inc	1	$50
Boston Scientific	2	$36
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	2	$32
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	4	$31
Pfizer	1	$17

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.

TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED GLENOID$42,513
TORNIER PERFORM REVERSED AUGMENTED GLENOID$26,125
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$23,347
TORNIER PERFORM ANATOMIC AUGMENTED GLENOID$20,425
BLUEPRINT PSI SYSTEM$18,411
SIMPLICITI$17,338
R&D UPPER EXT$11,163
AEQUALIS$11,124
AEQUALIS PERFORM$4,156
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$2,375
ACCOLADE$485
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$475
AFFINITI CORTILOC$475
SWANSON$475
LATITUDE - ELBOW$475
Revision Cup$238
Physio-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$131
INSIGNIA$127
Cervical-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$111
Spinal-Stim Osteogenesis Stimulator$111

How this compares

$137,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$406,318

Medicare patients

688

Services billed

2,758

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
Ibuprofen	199	$1,611
Lidocaine	12	$860
Mupirocin	99	$650
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	37	$357
Methylprednisolone	50	$349
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	40	$289
Naproxen	43	$236
Amoxicillin	68	$172
Tramadol Hcl	19	$46
Meloxicam	18	$44
Diazepam	14	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Bradenton

Alan ValadieBradenton$415K
Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M

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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.

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