Has Lekhaj Daggubati, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,110 in general payments to Lekhaj Daggubati, MD across 120 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 Lekhaj Daggubati, 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 Lekhaj Daggubati, 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.

Lekhaj Daggubati, MD

Neurological Surgery · Vienna, VANPI 1871987701

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.7%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,824, 7.8 times the $622 reported in 2019.

$11,110in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $92.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
Aesculap, Inc.$1K
Monteris Medical Corporation$832
Arthrex$626
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd$524
plus $3K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5005%
Travel & lodging$4,46840%
Food & beverage$5,86053%
Education$2823%

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)	48	$2,880
Alphatec Spine, Inc	5	$2,274
Aesculap, Inc.	12	$1,202
Monteris Medical Corporation	8	$832
Arthrex	8	$626
Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd	4	$524
Boston Scientific	6	$443
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	4	$393
Globus Medical	4	$307
AstraZeneca	2	$237
Abbott	2	$194
Livanova USA, Inc.	2	$166
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$151
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$148
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$142
Zimmer Biomet	2	$142
GT Medical Technologies, Inc	1	$131
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$120
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$70
Theragen, Inc.	1	$45
Spine Wave, Inc.	1	$43
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$41

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.

Other - Miscellaneous$2,249
AESCULAP$1,070
PAEDIGAV$1,070
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$640
Neuroblate$608
Quicktome$482
CD HORIZON$385
SYNCHROMEDII$321
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$242
ANDEXXA$237
ARAI SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM$151
INCEPTIV$140
VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$136
GammaTile$131
ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$127
PROCLAIM$120
Senza$109

How this compares

$11,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$138,961

Medicare patients

129

Services billed

302

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.

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Mudit SharmaManassas$714K
Ryan KelloggCharlottesville$245K
Andrew FanousAlexandria$185K
Bernardo OrdonezChesapeake$178K
Parker BabingtonNorfolk$164K
Devon LefeverChesapeake$148K
James BrennanNorfolk$130K

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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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