Nafisa Kuwajerwala, MD
Surgery · Southfield, MINPI 1063450658
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Elucent Medical accounts for 83.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $714 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $57 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $1,459.
Across 15 payments — averaging $70.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elucent Medical$873
- Stryker$32
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$28
- Medtronic$28
- Genentech USA, Inc.$26
- Covidien LP$20
- plus $45 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$58556%
- Food & beverage$45443%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elucent Medical | 6 | $873 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $28 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $20 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.
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.
Other surgery in Southfield
- Robert BartlettAnn Arbor$859K
- Matthew FourmanMonroe$492K
- Bruce McIntoshRochester Hills$435K
- Jon SchramZeeland$261K
- Eric DaviesBrighton$258K
- Robert LyonsYpsilanti$196K
- Joel StrehlTraverse City$170K
- John LimClinton Township$141K
- Bellal JosephDetroit$114K
- Anthony IaccoBeverly Hills$114K
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.