Has Nikhil Kumta, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $374,180 in general payments to Nikhil Kumta, MD across 430 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Nikhil Kumta, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Nikhil Kumta, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Nikhil Kumta, MD

Gastroenterology · New York, NYNPI 1639311061

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 47.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $196,722, 8.5 times the $23,014 reported in 2019. Among gastroenterology clinicians in NY 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.

$374,180in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 430 payments — averaging $870.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$179K
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

$158,112in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $8784.00 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.

Boston Scientific$158K

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	171	$178,653
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

$374,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,682 gastroenterology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$78,487

Medicare patients

229

Services billed

425

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 Carr LockeNew York$2M
Arthur KornbluthNew York$1.9M
Sonal KumarNew York$1M
David PoppersNew York$939K
Ellen ScherlNew York$857K
Bruce SandsNew York$810K
Jean Frederick ColombelNew York$786K
Seth GrossNew York$624K
Caterina Oneto ArayaNew York$610K
Dana LukinNew York$491K

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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.

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