Has Narendra Veerapaneni, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $904 in general payments to Narendra Veerapaneni, MD across 20 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 Narendra Veerapaneni, 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 Narendra Veerapaneni, 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.

Narendra Veerapaneni, MD

Hospitalist · Milwaukee, WINPI 1477784379

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $767 of the $904 with a category attached, or 84.8%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. at 27.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $408 and has fallen 72.1% since, to $114 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$904in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $45.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$246
Astellas Pharma US Inc$137
GSK$128
Johnson & Johnson$119
Amgen$114
AstraZeneca$46
plus $114 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$76785%
Education$13715%

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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$246
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$137
GSK	2	$128
Johnson & Johnson	2	$119
Amgen	1	$114
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	3	$46
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$41
Merck	2	$32
Boston Scientific	1	$16
AbbVie	1	$12
Pfizer	1	$12

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

$904 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 679 hospitalist providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$33,353

Medicare patients

134

Services billed

390

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
Midodrine Hcl	13	$304
Prednisone	13	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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