Has John Vu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,560 in general payments to John Vu, MD across 72 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 John Vu, 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 John Vu, 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.

John Vu, MD

Pain Medicine · Slidell, LANPI 1841450780

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,435 of the $3,560 with a category attached, or 68.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 46.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,140 and has fallen 70.3% since, to $339 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $3,650.

$3,560in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $49.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Abbott$929
MML US, Inc.$217
Nevro Corp.$177
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$163
Painteq LLC$146
plus $265 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,07630%
Food & beverage$2,43568%
Education$491%

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
Boston Scientific	22	$1,663
Abbott	12	$929
MML US, Inc.	1	$217
Nevro Corp.	4	$177
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	15	$163
Painteq LLC	5	$146
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$137
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$29
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$27
AbbVie	2	$24
Axonics, Inc.	1	$21
Biogen	1	$16
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$10

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

$3,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 97 pain medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$107,378

Medicare patients

300

Services billed

1,282

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	1,509	$31,167
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	12	$16,799
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	589	$16,404
Tramadol Hcl	357	$2,811
Fentanyl	12	$2,036
Pregabalin	111	$1,797
Lidocaine	11	$1,145
Gabapentin	99	$1,111
Oxycodone Hcl	58	$901
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	52	$495
Morphine Sulfate	11	$195
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	17	$117
Baclofen	16	$89
Methocarbamol	16	$75
Diazepam	13	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.