Has Francesca Tekula, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,056 in general payments to Francesca Tekula, MD across 20 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 Francesca Tekula, 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 Francesca Tekula, 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.

Francesca Tekula, MD

Neurological Surgery · Anderson, INNPI 1801801469

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,056in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $52.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$492
Sanara Medtech Inc.$283
Stryker$131
Globus Medical$50
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$45
DJO, LLC$29
plus $26 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,056100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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(2 entities)	7	$492
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$283
Stryker	4	$131
Globus Medical	2	$50
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$45
DJO, LLC	2	$29
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$26

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

$1,056 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 112 neurological surgery providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,595

Medicare patients

114

Services billed

312

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	89	$897
Gabapentin	47	$366
Tizanidine Hcl	63	$354
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	15	$173
Methylprednisolone	26	$114
Tramadol Hcl	18	$54
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	19	$39
Meloxicam	15	$25
Famotidine	18	$21
Diazepam	13	$5

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Anderson

Richard KimAnderson$47K
James CallahanAnderson$17K
Jean-Pierre MobasserCarmel$3.5M
Eric PottsCarmel$1.1M
Stephen SmithSouth Bend$970K
Troy PaynerCarmel$803K
Michael TurnerIndianapolis$522K
Bradley BohnstedtIndianapolis$423K
David StockwellIndianapolis$284K
Thomas WittIndianapolis$219K

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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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