Has Kunal Vakharia, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $190,327 in general payments to Kunal Vakharia, MD across 301 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 Kunal Vakharia, 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 Kunal Vakharia, 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.

Kunal Vakharia, MD

Neurological Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1124462700

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Microvention, Inc. accounts for 75.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $114,079, more than ten times the $621 reported in 2020. Among neurological surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$190,327in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 301 payments — averaging $632.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Microvention, Inc.$144K
Imperative Care, Inc$19K
Stryker$16K
Medtronic$8K
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$898
Bioventus LLC$725
plus $2K from 9 others

$29,523in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $4217.61 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Pramand LLC$25K
Stryker$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$51,10127%
Speaking & faculty fees$105,03055%
Travel & lodging$27,55214%
Food & beverage$6,6443%

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
Microvention, Inc.	182	$143,673
Imperative Care, Inc	32	$19,045
Stryker	24	$15,707
Medtronic	42	$8,176
Coastal Medical Technologies LLC	3	$898
Bioventus LLC	1	$725
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$619
Johnson & Johnson	4	$286
GT Medical Technologies, Inc	3	$242
Mizuho America, Inc.	1	$238
Viz.ai, Inc.	1	$198
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$185
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	1	$139
Zimmer Biomet	2	$127
Merck	1	$68

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.

WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$119,035
ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$18,073
STENT$12,095
TGS$3,000
SOLITAIRE X$2,062
Pipeline$1,161
BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$725
AURORA SURGISCOPE$600
TARGET$475
SURPASS EVOLVE$475
SOFIA 6F-131CM STR$420
ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$357
UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$289
STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$282
ZOOM RDL RADIAL ACCESS SYSTEM, 103CM$259
PHIL$248
DURAMATRIX$238
Viz.AI LVO$198
ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY ET DURAL SEALANT$144
HYDROSET$144

How this compares

$190,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$124,492

Medicare patients

219

Services billed

397

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.

Other neurological surgery in Tampa

Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
Puya AlikhaniTampa$582K
Steven TresserTampa$388K
Elias DakwarTampa$348K
Juan Valdivia ValdiviaTampa$208K
Gabriel Gonzales PortilloTampa$150K
Patrick KimTampa$145K
Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M

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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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