Naga Suresh Cheppalli, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1952633810
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (55.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC at 52.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,080 and has fallen 89.1% since, to $444 in 2025.
Across 59 payments — averaging $179.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$6K
- Stryker$3K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$166
- Smith+Nephew$121
- Alliance Medical$89
- plus $41 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,83727%
- Food & beverage$1,90818%
- Education$5,86855%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 3 | $5,598 |
| Stryker | 15 | $2,951 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 34 | $1,646 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $166 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $121 |
| Alliance Medical | 1 | $89 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,657
- MAKO$986
- Avenir$560
- Persona$212
- Sx-One Microknife$166
- Taperloc$144
How this compares
$10,613 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 107 orthopaedic surgery providers in New Mexico.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 23 | $1,465 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Albuquerque
- Deana MercerAlbuquerque$901K
- David ChafeyAlbuquerque$108K
- Heather MenzerAlbuquerque$61K
- Ernesto Otero LopezAlbuquerque$50K
- Rick GehlertAlbuquerque$46K
- Jeffrey BeckenbaughAlbuquerque$46K
- Matthew WhartonAlbuquerque$22K
- Jeffrey RaccaAlbuquerque$20K
- Michael ArchibeckAlbuquerque$19K
- Samer KakishAlbuquerque$15K
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.