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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,823 in general payments to Kenneth Vaz, MD across 80 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 Vaz, 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 Vaz, 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 Vaz, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Washington, DCNPI 1194064824

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.2%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 43.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,972, more than ten times the $151 reported in 2020.

$7,823in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $97.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$3K
Stryker$2K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Avanos Medical$265
Biocomposites Inc$211
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.$203
plus $332 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$83011%
Travel & lodging$2,01926%
Food & beverage$4,47657%
Education$4986%

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
Zimmer Biomet	33	$3,423
Stryker	29	$1,925
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	7	$1,464
Avanos Medical	2	$265
Biocomposites Inc	2	$211
Shalby Advanced Technologies, Inc.	1	$203
Davol Inc.	1	$194
Bone Support Inc.	1	$70
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$53
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	1	$15

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

$7,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 46 orthopaedic surgery providers in District of Columbia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$391,955

Medicare patients

664

Services billed

1,424

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
Celecoxib	28	$555
Oxycodone Hcl	51	$268
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$250
Meloxicam	100	$243
Ibuprofen	14	$185
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	12	$174
Gabapentin	13	$131
Tramadol Hcl	22	$85
Amoxicillin	12	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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