Has Ileana Deftu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $347 in general payments to Ileana Deftu, MD across 14 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 Ileana Deftu, 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 Ileana Deftu, 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.

Ileana Deftu, MD

Internal Medicine · Reno, NVNPI 1356568711

Payments from drug & device makers

$347in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $24.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$155
AbbVie$96
Novartis$80
Medtronic$16

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$347100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	3	$155
AbbVie(2 entities)	6	$96
Novartis	4	$80
Medtronic	1	$16

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.

XARELTO$118

How this compares

$347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,071 internal medicine providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$280,810

Medicare patients

365

Services billed

2,600

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
EliquisApixaban	38	$21,201
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog	18	$1,095
Gabapentin	50	$514
Atorvastatin Calcium	33	$418
Rosuvastatin Calcium	12	$390
Tamsulosin Hcl	27	$328
Levothyroxine Sodium	36	$309
Latanoprost	15	$306
Potassium Chloride	21	$264
Metoprolol Succinate	27	$263
Omeprazole	30	$243
Furosemide	40	$198
Methocarbamol	18	$187
Losartan Potassium	24	$176
Lisinopril	22	$169

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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