Has Brian Kuhn, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $184,393 in general payments to Brian Kuhn, MD across 291 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 Brian Kuhn, 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 Brian Kuhn, 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.

Brian Kuhn, MD

Vascular Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1841594496

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $139,075 of the $184,393 with a category attached, or 75.4%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Silk Road Medical, Inc. at 56.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $82,955 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $25 in 2025. Among vascular 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.

$184,393in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 291 payments — averaging $633.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Silk Road Medical, Inc.$105K
Globus Medical$52K
Shockwave Medical, Inc$13K
Penumbra, Inc.$4K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$4K
Medtronic$2K
plus $4K from 13 others

$126,436in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $2748.61 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.

Penumbra, Inc.$126K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$139,07575%
Speaking & faculty fees$15,4008%
Travel & lodging$21,89612%
Food & beverage$7,9524%
Education$700%

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
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	149	$104,997
Globus Medical(2 entities)	80	$51,886
Shockwave Medical, Inc	8	$13,299
Penumbra, Inc.	7	$3,997
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$3,750
Medtronic	2	$2,317
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	24	$2,210
Integrity Implants Inc.	2	$1,000
Cook Medical LLC	3	$251
Novapproach Spine, LLC	1	$156
Philips North America LLC	1	$142
Abbott	2	$113
Boston Scientific	2	$95
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$82
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$25
AstraZeneca	2	$24
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$21
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$15
Acell, Inc.	1	$13

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.

ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$102,269
ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$102,269
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$95,769
ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$95,769
ALIF$30,026
XLIF$12,722
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$10,151
ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$6,500
ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$6,500
Solus ALIF$3,750
Vascular Lithotripsy$3,148
Indigo System$2,400
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$2,300
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$2,145
Indigo$1,200
Pulse$648
FlareHawk$500
AccelCore$500
Excelsius3D Imaging System$467
VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$397

How this compares

$184,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 213 vascular surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$229,337

Medicare patients

1,169

Services billed

1,799

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 vascular surgery in Cincinnati

Patrick MuckCincinnati$650K
Matthew RechtCincinnati$73K
Geoffrey AnswiniCincinnati$65K
Christopher PaprzyckiCincinnati$40K
Richard FriesCincinnati$33K
Sasidhar KilaruCincinnati$33K
Stuart DonovanCincinnati$31K
Andrew HearnCincinnati$24K
Aaron KulwickiCincinnati$23K
En Yaw HongCincinnati$11K

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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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