Nethuja Salagundla, MD
Internal Medicine · Lafayette, LANPI 1508240722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.4%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 40.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $14,360, more than ten times the $36 reported in 2019. Among internal medicine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 459 payments — averaging $69.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$13K
- Medtronic$8K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Abiomed$977
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$969
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$426
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,0633%
- Travel & lodging$14,94347%
- Food & beverage$15,09347%
- Education$7632%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 307 | $12,736 |
| Medtronic | 58 | $7,640 |
| Boston Scientific | 40 | $7,174 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $977 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 5 | $969 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $426 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $376 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $262 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $262 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $213 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $175 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $135 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $106 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $89 |
| Merck | 1 | $50 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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.
- GALLANT$3,531
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,148
- ENSITE$2,453
- VersaCross Access Solution$1,263
- AVEIR$1,196
- Micra$903
- Carto 3$893
- Impella$804
- Farapulse$463
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$376
- OPTIMIZER$316
- OptiCross 6$249
- ENSITE PRECISION$185
- QUADRA ASSURA$131
- Indigo System$130
- FARXIGA$125
- AVVIGO Guidance System$120
- Resolute$120
- SYNERGY$111
- CAMZYOS$106
How this compares
$31,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
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.
Other internal medicine in Lafayette
- Bryan LebeanLafayette$53K
- Hector RoblesLafayette$19K
- Brad BroussardLafayette$17K
- Juan Perez-RuizLafayette$12K
- Donna RyanBaton Rouge$991K
- Steven DeitelzweigNew Orleans$939K
- Bruce SamuelsCovington$200K
- Amanda FontenotMarrero$142K
- John SchwabBaton Rouge$122K
- Daniel EnglertNew Orleans$74K
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.