Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

VIKRAM A KUMAR

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Neurological Surgery

NPI
1295758035
CMS profile
194199
Location
PHOENIX, AZ

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$5,880.62

  • Reported across 122 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$848.24

10 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $848.24 10

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Stryker Corporation $243.36 6
Centinel Spine, LLC $233.82 1
Microtransponder, Inc. $134.57 1
SI-BONE, INC. $124.23 1
Globus Medical, Inc. $112.26 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $218.02 4
PY2019 $530.24 13
PY2020 $259.12 8
PY2021 $769.30 23
PY2022 $1,521.40 33
PY2023 $1,734.30 31
PY2024 $848.24 10

Payment records · PY2024 (10)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Centinel Spine, LLC $233.82 03/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1133892452 CMS
Globus Medical, Inc. $112.26 08/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145033874 CMS
Microtransponder, Inc. $134.57 10/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1082717786 CMS
SI-BONE, INC. $124.23 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1120068217 CMS
Stryker Corporation $21.34 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884567 CMS
Stryker Corporation $11.19 04/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884569 CMS
Stryker Corporation $162.44 05/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884571 CMS
Stryker Corporation $10.60 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884573 CMS
Stryker Corporation $18.96 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884575 CMS
Stryker Corporation $18.83 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119884577 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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