Jay Kumar
Neurological Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1558850503
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 199 payments — averaging $602.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$79K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$33K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Globus Medical$974
- plus $4K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$32,50027%
- Grants$70,00058%
- Travel & lodging$8,8127%
- Food & beverage$8,4707%
- Education$1370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 128 | $79,044 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $32,523 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 5 | $1,710 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,074 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $1,059 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $974 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $883 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 16 | $747 |
| Stryker | 4 | $600 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $360 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $228 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $194 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $149 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $141 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Axogen | 1 | $59 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $48 |
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.
- UNID_PASS$71,068
- aprevo$1,710
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$1,170
- MIDAS REX$1,141
- VERCISE$949
- PROCLAIM$715
- VISUALASE$592
- XLIF$479
- DURAMATRIX$329
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$329
- DIRECT INJECT$304
- HYDROSET$304
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$295
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$289
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$282
- INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$212
- FLOSEAL$149
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY ET DURAL SEALANT$144
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$144
- INFINITY$143
How this compares
$119,918 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 773 neurological surgery providers in California.
Other neurological surgery in San Francisco
- Geoffrey ManleySan Francisco$24.9M
- Christopher AmesSan Francisco$7.1M
- Bruce McCormackSan Francisco$3.9M
- Jennie TaylorSan Francisco$2.7M
- Nicholas ButowskiSan Francisco$2.4M
- Luis SavastanoSan Francisco$1.7M
- Praveen MummaneniSan Francisco$1.1M
- Aaron ClarkSan Francisco$849K
- Lee TanSan Francisco$722K
- Jang YoonSan Francisco$371K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.