Vivekananda Gonugunta, MD
Neurological Surgery · Orlando, FLNPI 1336319623
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,075 of the $7,671 with a category attached, or 79.2%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,503 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $20 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $127.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Microvention, Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$293
Across 9 payments — averaging $2215.43 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$20K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,07579%
- Food & beverage$1,59621%
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(3 entities) | 49 | $4,196 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 4 | $1,977 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $1,205 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $293 |
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.
- WEB Aneurysm Embolization System$1,977
- Pipeline$1,156
- Excelsius - GPS$1,093
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$850
- UNID_PASS$609
- Artis icono floor$202
- Endoskeleton-L$103
How this compares
$7,671 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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 neurological surgery in Orlando
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Avery BuchholzOrlando$790K
- Hunaldo VillalobosOrlando$517K
- Virgilio MatheusOrlando$485K
- Jogi PattisapuOrlando$238K
- Joseph WehmanOrlando$167K
- Jay VachhaniOrlando$149K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
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.