Has Pranathi Mruthyunjaya, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,317 in general payments to Pranathi Mruthyunjaya, MD across 42 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 Pranathi Mruthyunjaya, 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 Pranathi Mruthyunjaya, 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.

Pranathi Mruthyunjaya, MD

Psychiatry · Santa Cruz, CANPI 1144636705

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,317in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $31.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$311
Alkermes, Inc.$268
AbbVie$244
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$149
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$106
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$82
plus $158 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,28798%
Education$302%

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
Johnson & Johnson	10	$311
Alkermes, Inc.	3	$268
AbbVie	11	$244
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$149
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$106
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$82
Indivior Inc.	2	$45
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$28
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$27
Dynavax Technologies Corporation	1	$24
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$17
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$17

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

$1,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$40,295

Medicare patients

Services billed

307

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
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	18	$1,248
Quetiapine Fumarate	20	$649
Aripiprazole	21	$611
Divalproex Sodium	30	$441
Risperidone	16	$173
Olanzapine	14	$161

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
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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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