Kumar Vasudevan, MD
Neurological Surgery · Saint Louis, MONPI 1932467594
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,175 of the $7,449 with a category attached, or 82.9%. Medtronic accounts for 81.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,198, more than ten times the $123 reported in 2020.
Across 78 payments — averaging $95.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Globus Medical$1K
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$197
- Novocure Inc.$73
- Baxter Healthcare$30
- Augmedics Inc.$26
- plus $34 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,17583%
- Food & beverage$1,27517%
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(2 entities) | 62 | $6,082 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $1,008 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $197 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 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
$7,449 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 172 neurological surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 64 | $1,006 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 51 | $446 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 43 | $194 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Saint Louis
- Neill WrightSaint Louis$1.1M
- Wilson RaySaint Louis$586K
- Camilo MolinaSaint Louis$412K
- Paul SantiagoSaint Louis$368K
- Daniel ScodarySaint Louis$278K
- Daniel HafezSaint Louis$273K
- John OgunladeSaint Louis$220K
- Joshua OsbunSaint Louis$98K
- Adewale BakareSaint Louis$81K
- Eric LeuthardtSaint Louis$78K
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.