Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

KOUROSH K JAFARNIA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery Hand Surgery

NPI
1568443562
CMS profile
26029
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$278,164.68

  • Reported across 83 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$26,023.60

9 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

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Royalty or License $25,112.48 2
Travel and Lodging $757.48 1
Food and Beverage $153.64 6

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Medartis Inc. $25,000.00 1
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $811.76 3
Linvatec Corporation $112.48 1
Endo USA, Inc. $47.25 2
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $32.21 1
ACUMED LLC $19.90 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $5,629.88 22
PY2020 $5,888.63 7
PY2021 $2,471.28 9
PY2022 $207,738.20 16
PY2023 $23,257.08 9
PY2024 $7,156.01 11
PY2025 $26,023.60 9

Payment records · PY2025 (9)

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

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ACUMED LLC $19.90 09/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238934792 CMS
Endo USA, Inc. $24.74 04/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1201208010 CMS
Endo USA, Inc. $22.51 07/09/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1201208012 CMS
Linvatec Corporation $112.48 02/15/2025 Royalty or License Undisputed 06/30/2026 1208718841 CMS
Medartis Inc. $25,000.00 01/29/2025 Royalty or License Undisputed 06/30/2026 1251675157 CMS
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $757.48 01/24/2025 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 06/30/2026 1192856947 CMS
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $26.21 01/31/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1192856951 CMS
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $28.07 07/08/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1192856955 CMS
VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED $32.21 02/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1213890583 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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