Dennis Kramer
Sports Medicine · Boston, MANPI 1770541690
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,678 of the $8,831 with a category attached, or 64.3%. Kairos Surgical Inc accounts for 64.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,297 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $26 in 2025.
Across 11 payments — averaging $802.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kairos Surgical Inc$6K
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$2K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$878
- Stryker$81
- Smith+Nephew$26
Across 4 payments — averaging $286,509 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.
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$1.1M
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,00334%
- Food & beverage$1512%
- Education$5,67864%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 7 | $5,722 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $2,125 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $878 |
| Stryker | 1 | $81 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $26 |
How this compares
$8,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 138 sports medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other sports medicine in Boston
- Elizabeth MatzkinBoston$182K
- Xinning LiBoston$109K
- Miho TanakaBoston$89K
- Giovanna Ignacio Subira MedinaBoston$55K
- Elise BixbyBoston$53K
- Yi Meng YenBoston$52K
- James SatalichBoston$46K
- Evan OdonnellBoston$39K
- Ian HutchinsonBoston$39K
- Thomas HolovacsBoston$28K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.