Firas Kawtharani, MD
Sports Medicine · Liberal, KSNPI 1114152121
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,970 of the $18,167 with a category attached, or 60.4%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 36.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,803 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $725 in 2025.
Across 87 payments — averaging $208.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$7K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$209
- plus $569 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,97060%
- Food & beverage$2,75015%
- Education$4,44624%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 32 | $6,639 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 16 | $3,445 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 5 | $3,287 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $2,844 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,174 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $209 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $175 |
| Stryker | 3 | $98 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $76 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $31 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Persona$3,632
- ROSA$1,419
- AMIStem H Femoral Stems$1,003
- GMK SPHERE$917
- AMISTEM$906
- GMK Sphere Revision System$364
- Oxford-Knees$180
- NA$106
How this compares
$18,167 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 56 sports medicine providers in Kansas.
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 | 55 | $447 |
| Gabapentin | 49 | $439 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 15 | $221 |
| Mupirocin | 31 | $214 |
| Methylprednisolone | 24 | $146 |
| Naproxen | 22 | $135 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $98 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $88 |
| Methocarbamol | 11 | $76 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Liberal
- Pingal DesaiLiberal$19K
- Kirk McCulloughLeawood$649K
- Michael KhadaviOverland Park$278K
- James HalloranLeawood$170K
- Scott MullenKansas City$65K
- Kent DoanLeawood$53K
- Daniel ChernoffLeawood$47K
- Erik HenkelmanLawrence$46K
- Brandon BarndsOverland Park$44K
- William MessamoreWichita$38K
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.