Umakanth Avula
Trauma Surgery · Urbana, ILNPI 1124479167
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,000 of the $12,266 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,678, more than ten times the $138 reported in 2022.
Across 39 payments — averaging $314.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Davol Inc.$439
- Polynovo North America LLC$209
- Teleflex LLC$138
- Vertex$119
- Baxter Healthcare$107
- plus $204 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,61121%
- Food & beverage$1,65513%
- Education$8,00065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 23 | $11,050 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $439 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $209 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Vertex | 1 | $119 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $107 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,902
- Phasix Mesh$402
- Novosorb BTM$139
- Arrow$138
- JOURNAVX$119
- FLOSEAL$107
How this compares
$12,266 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 47 trauma surgery providers in Illinois.
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.
Other trauma surgery in Urbana
- Neil MashruwalaUrbana$20K
- Leah TatebeChicago$70K
- Nabil IssaChicago$28K
- Matthew KaminskyChicago$22K
- Joseph HerroldChicago$22K
- Abbasali BadamiCarbondale$18K
- Osama AlsaiedChicago$16K
- Kilali IyallaCarbondale$12K
- Juan Flores GonzalezChicago$9K
- David SigmonChicago$8K
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.