Neil Kumar, MD
Sports Medicine · Brandon, FLNPI 1285920454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vericel Corporation accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 259 payments — averaging $285.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$46K
- Arthrex$13K
- MVP Orthopedics Inc$5K
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$3K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$2K
- plus $4K from 18 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $4018.96 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.
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$67K
- Vericel Corporation$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,01312%
- Speaking & faculty fees$41,85857%
- Travel & lodging$5,1117%
- Food & beverage$10,65114%
- Education$7,27210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 43 | $45,660 |
| Arthrex | 40 | $12,546 |
| MVP Orthopedics Inc | 10 | $4,949 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 57 | $2,503 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $2,082 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 5 | $1,689 |
| Smith+Nephew | 36 | $1,599 |
| Stryker | 40 | $1,574 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $240 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $121 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $106 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $57 |
| ERMI LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MACI$45,238
- REUNION$331
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$290
- TWINFIX$262
- BioBrace 23mm$240
- Unloader One X$150
- Irrisept$150
- MICRORAPTOR$142
- Q-FIX$142
- Integrity implant$139
- TRITANIUM$138
- BIO4$136
- TRAUMA$136
- GraftLink$121
- Quadlink$121
- VARIAX$113
- MAKO$113
- PRIME SERIES$111
- EVOS SMALL$105
How this compares
$73,904 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 402 sports medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 11 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Brandon
- Lee KaplanMiami$11.3M
- Patrick SmithNaples$2.9M
- Ryan SimovitchWest Palm Beach$1.1M
- Bruce LevyOrlando$816K
- Gautam YagnikMiami$440K
- Carl DilellaVero Beach$384K
- Adam AnzGulf Breeze$354K
- Stanton LongeneckerJacksonville$330K
- Luga PodestaNaples$206K
- Julianne MunozMiami$149K
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.