Ravi Kumar, MD
Neurological Surgery · Rochester, MNNPI 1851612972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,944 of the $6,842 with a category attached, or 72.3%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 46.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,136 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $144 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $207.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$3K
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Irras USA, Inc.$942
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$244
- Medtronic$144
- Stryker$136
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$94214%
- Travel & lodging$4,94472%
- Food & beverage$71310%
- Education$2444%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 24 | $3,156 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $2,221 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $942 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $244 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $144 |
| Stryker | 1 | $136 |
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.
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$2,158
- XLIF$1,704
- IRRASflow$942
- Pulse$797
- EVEREST$136
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$132
How this compares
$6,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 140 neurological surgery providers in Minnesota.
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 neurological surgery in Rochester
- Kendall LeeRochester$2.3M
- Vijay AgarwalRochester$101K
- Benjamin ElderRochester$69K
- Michelle ClarkeRochester$53K
- Jeremy FogelsonRochester$40K
- Giuseppe LanzinoRochester$37K
- Daniela StastnaRochester$10K
- Robert SpinnerRochester$9K
- Rushna AliRochester$8K
- Nikita LakomkinRochester$8K
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.