Has Kenneth Sands, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $407,284 in general payments to Kenneth Sands, MD across 249 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 Kenneth Sands, 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 Kenneth Sands, 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.

Kenneth Sands, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Melbourne, FLNPI 1669449575

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $259,975 of the $407,284 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 87.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $109,187 and has fallen 66.4% since, to $36,725 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in FL 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.

$407,284in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 249 payments — averaging $1635.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$354K
Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.$29K
Medacta USA, Inc.$12K
Smith+Nephew$6K
Arthrex$4K
Reel Surgical, Inc.$1K
plus $792 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$109,72027%
Consulting fees$259,97564%
Speaking & faculty fees$7,5002%
Travel & lodging$22,6046%
Food & beverage$4,3211%
Education$3,1641%

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
Encore Medical, LP	163	$354,159
Maxx Orthopedics, Inc.	15	$28,946
Medacta USA, Inc.	34	$12,067
Smith+Nephew	4	$5,588
Arthrex	10	$4,439
Reel Surgical, Inc.	3	$1,293
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	6	$208
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
Stryker	1	$117
ERMI LLC	3	$116
Think Surgical, Inc.	1	$92
Embody, Inc.	2	$54
Theragen, Inc.	2	$35
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$27
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC	1	$14
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$4

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.

DJO SURGICAL$323,136
DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$104,790
DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$98,575
DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$38,700
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$33,900
Freedom Total Knee System$22,250
AMIStem H Femoral Stems$7,391
DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$5,387
DJO Surgical Cobalt HV Bone Cement$4,800
GMK Sphere Revision System$1,632
AMISTEM$1,538
Journey II XR$1,375
GMK SPHERE$829
DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$261
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$190
DJO Surgical Linear Hip System$149
NUZYRA$125
EXPAREL$121
PANGEA$117

How this compares

$407,284 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,263 orthopaedic surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$396,638

Medicare patients

447

Services billed

1,201

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	28	$535
Tamsulosin Hcl	92	$98
Amoxicillin	34	$62
Meloxicam	27	$62
Tramadol Hcl	20	$47
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	16	$44

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Melbourne

Richard HynesMelbourne$34.8M
Andrew CooperClearwater$102M
Mark FrankleTemple Terrace$31M
Roy SandersTemple Terrace$19.6M
George HaidukewychOrlando$10M
Robert SantrockFernandina Beach$7.3M
Martin RocheFt. Lauderdale$7.1M
Steven LyonsTampa$6.7M
Thomas BernasekTemple Terrace$6.4M
Bryan SpringerJacksonville$6.3M

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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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