Sanford Kunkel
Orthopaedic Surgery · Indianapolis, INNPI 1821045386
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,924,430 of the $1,926,930 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. accounts for 78.1% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN 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 50 payments — averaging $38,539 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$1.5M
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$286K
- Smith+Nephew$133K
- Wishbone Medical Inc.$3K
Across 1 payment — averaging $5015.25 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.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$5K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,924,430100%
- Consulting fees$1,5000%
- Travel & lodging$1,0000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 28 | $1,505,606 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $286,145 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $132,679 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 2 | $2,500 |
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.
- RIGIDLOOP$1,505,606
- Omnispan Orthocord$1,061,959
- OMNISPAN$443,647
- PT-PARTIALLY THREADED$259,309
- TSSM - TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM METAL$259,309
- TITAN$105,915
- TITAN TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM$26,836
- RSS$26,764
How this compares
$1,926,930 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Indianapolis
- David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
- Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
- Hill HastingsIndianapolis$1.6M
- Michael CrossIndianapolis$870K
- Brian MullisIndianapolis$632K
- Dean MaarIndianapolis$589K
- Russell SwannIndianapolis$135K
- Thomas FischerIndianapolis$117K
- Wesley LackeyIndianapolis$115K
- Mark DillonIndianapolis$98K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.