Has Kelechi Akuma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,085 in general payments to Kelechi Akuma, MD across 260 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 Kelechi Akuma, 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 Kelechi Akuma, 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.

Kelechi Akuma, MD

Vascular Surgery · Bay Shore, NYNPI 1649539339

Payments from drug & device makers

$20,085in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 260 payments — averaging $77.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Angiodynamics, Inc.$4K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
Cook Medical LLC$3K
Penumbra, Inc.$2K
Bolton Medical Inc$1K
Avinger Inc.$1K
plus $5K from 22 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,70318%
Food & beverage$12,91564%
Education$4122%
Other$3,05615%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Angiodynamics, Inc.	6	$4,275
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	39	$4,143
Cook Medical LLC	96	$2,764
Penumbra, Inc.	5	$1,554
Bolton Medical Inc	14	$1,415
Avinger Inc.	5	$1,357
Medtronic(2 entities)	21	$845
Endologix LLC	2	$518
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	16	$491
Inari Medical, Inc.	5	$411
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	4	$367
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	4	$280
Kerecis Limited	5	$275
Abbott	4	$233
Cvrx, Inc.	2	$171
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$155
Boston Scientific	1	$136
Surmodics, Inc.	6	$106
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$76
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$73
Artivion, Inc.	2	$73
Philips North America LLC	3	$67
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$65
Neuros Medical, Inc.	3	$61
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	3	$56
Smith+Nephew	3	$52
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$38
Humacyte Global, Inc.	1	$28

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.

How this compares

$20,085 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 405 vascular surgery providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$80,789

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

351

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
XareltoRivaroxaban	20	$18,391
EliquisApixaban	12	$12,123
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	24	$212

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Bay Shore

Gary GelbfishNew York$1.9M
Sundaram RavikumarDobbs Ferry$1.8M
Antonios GasparisHuntington$1.7M
John LantisNew York$1.4M
Sonya NoorBuffalo$1.2M
Brian DerubertisNew York$1M
Thomas MaldonadoNew York$1M
James McKinseyNew York$750K
Peter FariesNew York$639K
Virendra PatelNew York$590K

See the full list for New York →

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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