Umashankkar Kannan, MD
Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1366720039
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,750 of the $17,922 with a category attached, or 76.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 95.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $14,083 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $69 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 44 payments — averaging $407.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- Medtronic$559
- THD America, Inc.$91
- Davol Inc.$39
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$34
- Teleflex LLC$33
- plus $82 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,32113%
- Food & beverage$1,83510%
- Education$13,75077%
- Gifts$150%
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 | 32 | $17,084 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $559 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
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$11,750
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,659
- Signia$429
How this compares
$17,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 surgery in Philadelphia
- Brett ChatmanPhiladelphia$178K
- David WernsingPhiladelphia$142K
- Said AzouryPhiladelphia$131K
- James MarkmannPhiladelphia$97K
- Daniel HewittPhiladelphia$89K
- Daniel HashimotoPhiladelphia$73K
- Scott KozinPhiladelphia$59K
- Prashanth PalvannanPhiladelphia$54K
- Henry HirschPhiladelphia$53K
- Erica PettkePhiladelphia$52K
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.