Has Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $695 in general payments to Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD across 18 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 Laxmaiah Manchikanti, 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 Laxmaiah Manchikanti, 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.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Paducah, KYNPI 1730178799

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 18 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $349 and has fallen 78.7% since, to $74 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $3,169.

$695in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $38.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$264
Abbott$162
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$109
Curonix LLC$98
Biotronik NRO, Inc.$32
Nevro Corp.$16
plus $14 from 1 others

$50in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $50.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Boston Scientific$50

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$695100%

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)	11	$264
Abbott	1	$162
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$109
Curonix LLC	1	$98
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$32
Nevro Corp.	1	$16
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$14

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.

PROCLAIM$162

How this compares

$695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 55 interventional pain medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$379,397

Medicare patients

710

Services billed

3,913

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	3,657	$93,615
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	4,216	$88,340
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	119	$47,620
Gabapentin	2,586	$22,507
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	27	$19,793
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	129	$19,281
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	20	$18,949
Oxycodone Hcl	701	$13,493
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	393	$12,593
LyricaPregabalin	12	$12,415
Pregabalin	534	$10,404
Naloxone Hcl	141	$8,369
Lidocaine	99	$6,711
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	675	$5,253
Tizanidine Hcl	798	$5,251

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Paducah

Kavita ManchikantiPaducah$1K
Yogesh MallaPaducah$444
Riley LovePaducah$369
Robert KlickovichFlorence$57K
Hammad MalikRichmond$35K
Michael FletcherFlorence$18K
Vishal BansalMadisonville$13K
Anand ModaduguLexington$12K
Zachary KlingerCorbin$10K
Nathan LambornLouisville$10K

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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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