Ravi Kapadia, MD
Surgery · Bakersfield, CANPI 1669736427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $49,003 of the $73,044 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Organogenesis Inc. accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $34,168 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $541 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in CA 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 228 payments — averaging $320.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$63K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$690
- Medtronic$378
- Nevro Corp.$346
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$49,00367%
- Travel & lodging$14,58120%
- Food & beverage$6,4609%
- Education$3,0004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 131 | $63,416 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $4,430 |
| Endologix LLC | 19 | $2,020 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 10 | $690 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $378 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $346 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $312 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $289 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $281 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $194 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $186 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $127 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
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.
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$22,684
- PuraPly$21,058
- Affinity$11,012
- Puraply Antimicrobial$10,102
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,233
- Apligraf$4,222
- NOVACHOR$4,222
- NuShield$4,222
- AFX$1,579
- Solus ALIF$312
- AdvantageRib$226
- RibFix Blu$148
- CellerateRx$117
- SenSura Mio$101
- Cook Medical Zenith$101
How this compares
$73,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
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 Bakersfield
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.8M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
- Beemen KhalilPalo Alto$1.1M
- John LiphamLos Angeles$942K
- Alexander NedopilLodi$682K
- Barry GardinerSan Ramon$602K
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.