Suhel Kotwal, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Leawood, KSNPI 1942513239
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (53.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 34.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,304 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $847 in 2025.
Across 177 payments — averaging $77.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$5K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Stryker$4K
- Encore Medical, LP$426
- Arthrex$243
- Medtronic$148
- plus $453 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$590%
- Travel & lodging$7,39854%
- Food & beverage$6,34446%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 46 | $4,711 |
| Globus Medical | 20 | $3,950 |
| Stryker | 95 | $3,870 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $426 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $243 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $148 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Abbott | 1 | $117 |
| Titan Surgical Group, LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
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.
- RISE$1,503
- ROSA$1,238
- Excelsius - GPS$843
- Oxford-Knees$807
- Sable$730
- MAKO$729
- G7$693
- Avenir$563
- ELSA$480
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$317
- Persona Revision$295
- mymobility Platform$140
- SurgX$132
- Xperience$132
- PROCLAIM$117
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$117
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$109
How this compares
$13,801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 197 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $387 |
| Methocarbamol | 70 | $286 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $175 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $144 |
| Cephalexin | 32 | $140 |
| Mupirocin | 14 | $79 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $49 |
| Meloxicam | 38 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Leawood
- Harold EllsworthLeawood$154K
- Joshua LockerLeawood$91K
- Jacob StueveLeawood$76K
- Nicholas TingLeawood$23K
- Peter AdamsonLeawood$21K
- Sean BonanniLeawood$15K
- Jeffrey McIntoshLeawood$12K
- Christopher PeerLeawood$11K
- John CarlisleLeawood$9K
- David AndersonKansas City$490K
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.