Has Deirdre McDonnell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,705 in general payments to Deirdre McDonnell, MD across 22 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Deirdre McDonnell, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Deirdre McDonnell, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Deirdre McDonnell, MD

Internal Medicine · Evansville, INNPI 1902434830

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,705in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $77.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$160
Abbott$132
Nevro Corp.$108
MML US, Inc.$91
Globus Medical$35
plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$87551%
Food & beverage$83049%

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	9	$1,163
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$160
Abbott	6	$132
Nevro Corp.	1	$108
MML US, Inc.	2	$91
Globus Medical	2	$35
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$17

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.

How this compares

$1,705 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$30,136

Medicare patients

154

Services billed

381

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium	16	$12,916
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	541	$12,658
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	398	$9,279
Lidocaine	18	$3,426
Oxycodone Hcl	83	$1,854
Gabapentin	187	$1,810
Pregabalin	63	$1,057
Methadone Hcl	60	$762
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	28	$751
Tizanidine Hcl	69	$492
Hydromorphone Hcl	26	$419
Celecoxib	14	$255
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	44	$137
Tramadol Hcl	24	$137
Amitriptyline Hcl	13	$121

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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