Pranat Kumar, MD
Surgery · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1275793549
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $32,000 of the $48,082 with a category attached, or 66.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 74.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $19,209, 3.7 times the $5,226 reported in 2019. Among surgery 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.
Across 69 payments — averaging $696.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$36K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$11K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$763
- Johnson & Johnson$213
- Stryker$137
- Conmed Corporation$117
- plus $242 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,10011%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,90010%
- Travel & lodging$2,8016%
- Food & beverage$3,2817%
- Education$32,00067%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 28 | $35,792 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 18 | $10,817 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $763 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 8 | $213 |
| Stryker | 2 | $137 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $117 |
| THD America, Inc. | 4 | $107 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $89 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Hollister Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$35,705
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$711
- AIRSEAL$117
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$108
How this compares
$48,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,596 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 27 | $134 |
| Metronidazole | 30 | $51 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Poughkeepsie
- John ChoiPoughkeepsie$179K
- Susan BoolbolPoughkeepsie$138K
- Ziad AbouezziPoughkeepsie$59K
- Lee FarberPoughkeepsie$54K
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Benjamin SadowitzSyracuse$419K
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.