Has Navneet Sharma, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,762 in general payments to Navneet Sharma, MD across 166 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 Navneet Sharma, 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 Navneet Sharma, 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.

Navneet Sharma, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Ruston, LANPI 1811286099

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,793 of the $7,762 with a category attached, or 61.8%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Simplicity, LLC at 33.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,987 and has fallen 71.7% since, to $563 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in LA 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.

$7,762in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 166 payments — averaging $46.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
Boston Scientific$1K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$940
Vertos Medical, Inc.$738
AbbVie$563
plus $749 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,96938%
Food & beverage$4,79362%

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
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	35	$2,593
Vertiflex, Inc.	9	$1,147
Boston Scientific	47	$1,033
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	8	$940
Vertos Medical, Inc.	10	$738
AbbVie(2 entities)	37	$563
Stryker	1	$144
Abbott	4	$129
Medtronic	1	$99
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$94
Pfizer	4	$87
Amgen	4	$77
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$51
Axonics, Inc.	1	$42
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$26

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

$7,762 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 117 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$594,765

Medicare patients

430

Services billed

34,251

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
Hysingla ErHydrocodone Bitartrate	23	$18,136
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	304	$2,683
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	25	$737
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	66	$475
Tramadol Hcl	82	$296
Tizanidine Hcl	23	$182
Gabapentin	27	$167
Pregabalin	16	$93
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Ruston

William RogenmoserAlexandria$350K
Andrea ToomerMarrero$170K
Taylor ColonCovington$26K
Erik DavisMetairie$12K
Stephen RynickMarrero$12K
Fred DefranceschMetairie$11K
Eric FinckeNew Orleans$9K
Casey MurphyNew Orleans$8K
Joshua KaufmanNew Orleans$8K
Ayman HamedBaton Rouge$7K

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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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