Has Samuel Murala, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,496 in general payments to Samuel Murala, MD across 84 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 Samuel Murala, 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 Samuel Murala, 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.

Samuel Murala, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Evansville, INNPI 1205210150

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,173 of the $8,496 with a category attached, or 60.9%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 55.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,606 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $245 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in IN 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.

$8,496in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $101.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$5K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
Boston Scientific$1K
Nevro Corp.$683
GRT US Holding, Inc.$146
Vertos Medical, Inc.$136
plus $549 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,17361%
Food & beverage$3,28839%
Education$350%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$4,693
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	10	$1,190
Boston Scientific	10	$1,099
Nevro Corp.	18	$683
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$146
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$136
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$109
Curonix LLC	1	$98
Gilead	1	$96
Amgen	1	$69
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$57
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$55
Stryker	1	$34
Abbott	1	$17
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$15

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.

RESTORE$1,399
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,040
SYNCHROMED$993
LIORESAL$858
INTELLIS$532
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$279
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$170
Qutenza$146
mild Device Kit$123
Omnia$113
QUVIVIQ$109

How this compares

$8,496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 140 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$3,331

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	183	$46,893
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	70	$43,768
Buprenorphine	140	$34,575
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	27	$27,011
HorizantGabapentin Enacarbil	11	$20,084
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	800	$18,873
SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	16	$11,577
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	387	$11,447
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl	31	$10,381
Pregabalin	216	$6,367
Naloxone Hcl	104	$5,381
Buprenorphine Hcl	74	$5,212
Gabapentin	439	$4,231
Oxycodone Hcl	134	$3,348
Celecoxib	71	$2,296

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Evansville

William AnteEvansville$5K
Christina WalzFort Wayne$503K
Shashank DaveIndianapolis$198K
Sayed WaheziFort Wayne$161K
Andrew DavissonNew Castle$74K
Sachin MehtaIndianapolis$60K
David StenslandFort Wayne$24K
Scott TaylorNew Castle$18K
Jeffrey BeckTerre Haute$10K
Daniel RothFort Wayne$10K

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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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