Levi Kindel
Orthopaedic Surgery · Wichita, KSNPI 1649763905
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.4%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 57.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,959 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $163 in 2025.
Across 113 payments — averaging $84.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$6K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Titan Surgical Group, LLC$1K
- Stryker$467
- Johnson & Johnson$387
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$102
- plus $231 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,97541%
- Food & beverage$2,62927%
- Education$2,99431%
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 | 72 | $5,530 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $1,627 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 3 | $1,253 |
| Stryker | 16 | $467 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $387 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $102 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $95 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Vertex | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Persona$1,210
- ROSA$1,121
- Knees Product Portfolio$923
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$833
- Hips Product Portfolio$237
- MAKO$164
- CINCHLOCK$123
- Geminus$102
- Align$102
- IJS$102
- Implate$102
How this compares
$9,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 32 | $272 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $147 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $129 |
| Gabapentin | 19 | $99 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $85 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $31 |
| Amoxicillin | 19 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Wichita
- Tyler BronWichita$107K
- Jeffrey ShepherdWichita$87K
- Scott AdrianWichita$58K
- Andrew MerwinWichita$45K
- Paul EnnsWichita$27K
- Justin StricklandWichita$26K
- Scott HaskinsWichita$9K
- Kevin HoferWichita$9K
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
- Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299K
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.