Nikhil Kumta, MD
Gastroenterology · New York, NYNPI 1639311061
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 448 payments — averaging $1188.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$337K
- Olympus Corporation$71K
- Olympus America Inc.$46K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$35K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$29K
- Gyrus ACMI, Inc.$6K
- plus $9K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$178,76648%
- Speaking & faculty fees$142,53538%
- Grants$5000%
- Travel & lodging$40,35511%
- Food & beverage$12,0243%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 189 | $336,765 |
| Olympus Corporation | 55 | $71,395 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 52 | $46,006 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 60 | $35,211 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 42 | $28,729 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 9 | $5,631 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 8 | $4,296 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $1,285 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $769 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 5 | $663 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $353 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $345 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $286 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $200 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $129 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $70 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$70,674
- EVIS EXERA III COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$35,930
- GASTROINTESTINAL VIDEOSCOPE$25,625
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$23,877
- EXALT Model D$18,440
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$18,079
- AXIOS$15,497
- EVIS EXERA III VIDEO SYSTEM CENTER$14,955
- Overstitch$11,188
- Single Use Repositionable Clip$10,200
- RESOLUTION CLIP$9,049
- X-tack$7,394
- GENERAL HEMOSTASIS$6,280
- Apollo REVISE NXT System$5,350
- EndoClot SIS$4,690
- ORISE$2,624
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System Sx$2,400
- EVIS EXERA II ULTRASOUND GASTROVIDEOSCOPE$1,075
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$756
- Da Vinci Surgical System$750
How this compares
$532,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 50 | $697 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 20 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in New York
- David HudesmanNew York$3.6M
- Ellen ScherlNew York$2.9M
- Bruce SandsNew York$2.8M
- Arun SwaminathNew York$2.7M
- Sonal KumarNew York$2.3M
- David Carr LockeNew York$2.1M
- Arthur KornbluthNew York$1.9M
- Ira JacobsonNew York$1.8M
- James MarionNew York$1.7M
- Jean Frederick ColombelNew York$1.6M
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.