Sarafina Kankam, MD
Pain Medicine · Kansas City, KSNPI 1023472677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,284 of the $2,747 with a category attached, or 83.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 41.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $817, 2.0 times the $399 reported in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $2,519.
Across 32 payments — averaging $85.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc$313
- Globus Medical$197
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$191
- Nevro Corp.$176
- Painteq LLC$161
- plus $566 from 6 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $68.18 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.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$68
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$46317%
- Food & beverage$2,28483%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 14 | $1,142 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $313 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $197 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $176 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $161 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $140 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Stryker | 2 | $60 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $53 |
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.
How this compares
$2,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 64 pain medicine providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 22 | $2,438 |
| Gabapentin | 131 | $1,384 |
| Pregabalin | 61 | $948 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 44 | $351 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 31 | $290 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 42 | $230 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $94 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Kansas City
- Usman LatifKansas City$734K
- Dawood SayedKansas City$649K
- Andrea ChadwickKansas City$269K
- Christopher LamKansas City$31K
- Samuel PattonKansas City$30K
- Edward BraunKansas City$12K
- James KindscherKansas City$8K
- Brian JonesKansas City$792
- Grace ShihKansas City$443
- Thomas SmithKansas City$164
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.