Kush Desai, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Hartford, CTNPI 1740801026
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,812 of the $5,201 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 43.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,954 and has fallen 66.7% since, to $983 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $73.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$672
- Smith+Nephew$389
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$321
- Kerecis Limited$296
- Solventum Corporation$274
- plus $989 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,23224%
- Food & beverage$3,81273%
- Education$1573%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 30 | $2,260 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 3 | $672 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $389 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $321 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $296 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $274 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $198 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Axogen | 1 | $112 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 4 | $109 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $94 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $93 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $76 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$888
- INTEGRA$799
- PROstep$634
- Lapiplasty System$619
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$296
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$296
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$270
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$266
- PRIMATRIX$266
- MOTOBAND$259
- CITREFIX$257
- PROPHECY$250
- PROSTEP MICA$165
- PREVENA RESTOR AXIOFORM$150
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$150
- MemoFix Super Elastic Nitinol Staple System$146
- Panta 2$146
- CANNULATED SCREWS$146
- SMALL CANNULATED SCREWS$146
- MOTOBAND CP$130
How this compares
$5,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 89 foot & ankle surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JubliaEfinaconazole | 19 | $22,881 |
| Ciclopirox | 116 | $2,885 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 86 | $1,264 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 14 | $387 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 46 | $333 |
| Ketoconazole | 20 | $216 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 12 | $161 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCJublia | $93 | $22,88119 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 89 foot & ankle surgery providers in Connecticut.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Hartford
- Thomas McDonaldEnfield$241K
- Jossie AbrahamNorwalk$152K
- Gabriel GambardellaBloomfield$99K
- David CaminearHamden$47K
- James DejesusNaugatuck$40K
- William ProbascoFairfield$26K
- Adebola AdelekeMiddletown$24K
- Rachel AlbrightDarien$14K
- Paulina PiekarskaNorwalk$13K
- Allen FerrucciHamden$13K
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.