Shawn Kumar, MD
Pain Medicine · Hobart, INNPI 1043552953
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,739 of the $20,273 with a category attached, or 72.7%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,256, 3.8 times the $1,124 reported in 2019.
Across 247 payments — averaging $82.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Nevro Corp.$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$976
- Globus Medical$968
- plus $4K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,28626%
- Food & beverage$14,73973%
- Education$2491%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 78 | $5,671 |
| Nevro Corp. | 46 | $4,055 |
| Abbott | 44 | $3,012 |
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $1,954 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $976 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $968 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 4 | $870 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $845 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 3 | $451 |
| Painteq LLC | 13 | $430 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $180 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $176 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $148 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $123 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Senza$2,195
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$1,589
- PROCLAIM$1,486
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$1,392
- Intracept$1,054
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$955
- SUPERION$954
- mild Device Kit$823
- InSpan$797
- SIJFuse$797
- FacetFuse$797
- NanoFuse$797
- Omnia$785
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$777
- Vyrsa V1$523
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$425
- PAINTEQ$257
- Accurian$171
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$166
- Proclaim IPG$158
How this compares
$20,273 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 128 pain medicine providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 14 | $12,561 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 164 | $2,480 |
| Gabapentin | 182 | $2,358 |
| Pregabalin | 75 | $1,436 |
| Celecoxib | 24 | $1,076 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 116 | $802 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 12 | $702 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 38 | $443 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $348 |
| Meloxicam | 209 | $347 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $327 |
| Nabumetone | 27 | $251 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $167 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $162 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Hobart
- Derron WilsonCarmel$616K
- Kevin MacadaegCarmel$337K
- Andrew TrobridgeMuncie$253K
- Meredith LanghorstFishers$233K
- Abhishek DasMishawaka$186K
- Rajiv TewariFishers$140K
- John SwoffordIndianapolis$127K
- Neal ColemanMuncie$38K
- Matthew DevriesLafayette$37K
- Amer KaziGranger$34K
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.