Naidu Chekuru
Pulmonary Disease · Lubbock, TXNPI 1073515433
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 350 payments — averaging $17.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Grifols USA, LLC$472
- AstraZeneca$366
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$291
- Johnson & Johnson$283
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,053100%
- Education$130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 120 | $1,899 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 62 | $1,031 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 25 | $472 |
| AstraZeneca | 22 | $366 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 18 | $291 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $283 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $246 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $233 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $196 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $152 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $116 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $111 |
| Merck | 7 | $92 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $78 |
| Amgen | 4 | $75 |
| Medivance, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $49 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $25 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$6,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.
Other pulmonary disease in Lubbock
- Charles AndrewsSan Antonio$17M
- Ivan RosasHouston$13.8M
- Shahrukh KureishyMcKinney$12.4M
- Raksha JainDallas$3.4M
- Kelly ChinDallas$2.7M
- Julie PhilleyTyler$2.4M
- Nicola HananiaHouston$2.2M
- Sandeep SahayHouston$2.1M
- Antonio AnzuetoSan Antonio$1.8M
- Diego Maselli CaceresSan Antonio$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.