Has Tochi Umunakwe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,235 in general payments to Tochi Umunakwe, MD across 54 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 Tochi Umunakwe, 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 Tochi Umunakwe, 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.

Tochi Umunakwe, MD

Anesthesiology · Kensington, MDNPI 1609119577

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Medtronic accounts for 74.0% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,868 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $359 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in MD 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.

$5,235in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $96.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$4K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
Si-bone, Inc.$88
Nalu Medical, Inc.$63
Abbott$16

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,52848%
Food & beverage$2,70752%

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(2 entities)	47	$3,871
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$1,196
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$88
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$63
Abbott	1	$16

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

$5,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 953 anesthesiology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$62,499

Medicare patients

142

Services billed

797

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
BotoxOnabotulinumtoxina	12	$11,104
Naloxone Hcl	33	$1,879
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	78	$1,542
Gabapentin	114	$823
Pregabalin	67	$798
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	59	$549
Methocarbamol	39	$530
Baclofen	48	$434
Tizanidine Hcl	38	$332
Tramadol Hcl	50	$314
Oxycodone Hcl	18	$275
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	11	$253
Duloxetine Hcl	38	$240
Methylprednisolone	25	$193
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	25	$142

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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