Record · Provider
Sanford Kunkel
Indianapolis, IN. NPI 1821045386. Orthopaedic Surgery.
What was reported, 2019–2025
- $1.9 million
- General payments
- $1,926,930
- 50 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.
- $5,015
- Research payments
- Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.
- $0
- Ownership and investment
- The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.
- 0
- Disputed
- This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.
How this compares
- General payments: $1,926,930, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 231st among the 20,663 profiles with general payments in Orthopaedic Surgery.
General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 900th of 1,688,859 In Indiana 11th of 32,621 In Orthopaedic Surgery 231st of 20,663 Profiles below it nationally More than 99% Share of the national total < 0.1% - Research payments: $5,015, 2019–2025
- By the amount companies reported, 303rd among the 501 profiles named on research payments in Orthopaedic Surgery.
Research payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total Nationally 9,537th of 22,827 In Indiana 155th of 334 In Orthopaedic Surgery 303rd of 501 Profiles below it nationally More than 58% Share of the national total < 0.1%
What the payments were
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| Nature of payment | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty or License | $1.9 million$1,924,430 |
| Consulting Fee | $1,500 |
| Travel and Lodging | $1,000 |
Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.
By program year
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| Program year | General | Research |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $211,406 | $0 |
| 2024 | $209,123 | $0 |
| 2023 | $260,507 | $0 |
| 2022 | $271,192 | $0 |
| 2021 | $269,245 | $0 |
| 2020 | $306,761 | $5,015 |
| 2019 | $398,695 | $0 |
CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.
The record
- National Provider Identifier
- 1821045386
- The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.
- Licensed in
- IN
- The state of the license CMS lists first.
- Recipient type
- Covered Recipient Physician
- How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.
Medicare prescribing
CMS holds no Part D record for NPI 1821045386 in the most recent year we hold, and that has two readings it does not distinguish between: this provider billed Medicare Part D for nothing that year, or they billed it for ten claims or fewer, which CMS removes from the file before publishing to protect the patients behind them. It does not mean the data is missing, and it does not mean this provider writes no prescriptions — anything paid for privately, by Medicaid, or by a patient is not in this file at all.
Elsewhere
- Payments to doctors in Indiana — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
- What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
- This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
- The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.
Data retrieved
Sources
- Open Payments — payments grouped by physician — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
Compiled automatically from Open Payments — payments grouped by physician by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built