Has Susheel Govindan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,090 in general payments to Susheel Govindan, MD across 64 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Susheel Govindan, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Susheel Govindan, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Susheel Govindan, MD

Anesthesiology · Kansas City, KSNPI 1477046712

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.2%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 47.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,280 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $249 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in KS 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.

$10,090in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $157.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$5K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
Nevro Corp.$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$176
Painteq LLC$161
plus $289 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,18612%
Travel & lodging$5,57355%
Food & beverage$3,33133%

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	23	$4,813
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	17	$1,605
Nevro Corp.	6	$1,567
Boston Scientific	7	$1,479
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	4	$176
Painteq LLC	1	$161
Medtronic	2	$124
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$111
Curonix LLC	1	$33
MML US, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$10,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 337 anesthesiology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$144,347

Medicare patients

630

Services billed

1,359

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
Tizanidine Hcl	82	$727
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	57	$563
Celecoxib	29	$545
Gabapentin	23	$445
Meloxicam	23	$100
Methylprednisolone	11	$75

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Anthony KovacKansas City$8K
Michael TolletteKansas City$6K
Andrew SackKansas City$5K
Jared StaabKansas City$4K
Joel GrigsbyKansas City$2K
Kelsey GustafsonKansas City$1K
Taylor CarterKansas City$1K
Sajjan GayamKansas City$1K

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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.

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