Kwame Amankwah, MD
Vascular Surgery · Farmington, CTNPI 1508815762
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,370 of the $6,235 with a category attached, or 86.1%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,633 and has fallen 84.4% since, to $410 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $7,252.
Across 69 payments — averaging $90.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$619
- Endologix LLC$522
- Inari Medical, Inc.$304
- plus $941 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$63310%
- Food & beverage$5,37086%
- Entertainment$2324%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 8 | $1,459 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 19 | $1,204 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $1,185 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $619 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $522 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $304 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $146 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Abbott | 2 | $126 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $65 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,617
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,255
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$752
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$590
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$548
- ENDURANT IIS$461
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$427
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$393
- Zenith Alpha$330
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$247
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$204
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$204
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$188
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$160
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$158
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$149
- Indigo System$144
- ENDOCROSS Device$129
- Torus Stent Graft System$129
- Zenith$120
How this compares
$6,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 82 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Farmington
- Bing ShueFarmington$49K
- Jeffrey IndesFarmington$13K
- Christine KariyaFarmington$5K
- David KullFarmington$4K
- Adam CloudFarmington$3K
- Uwe FischerNew London$941K
- Paul GagneDarien$766K
- Naiem NassiriNew Haven$348K
- Lee GoldsteinStratford$272K
- Mohiuddin CheemaHartford$228K
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.