Has Sasidhar Gunturu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,889 in general payments to Sasidhar Gunturu, MD across 44 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 Sasidhar Gunturu, 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 Sasidhar Gunturu, 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.

Sasidhar Gunturu, MD

Psychosomatic Medicine · Bronx, NYNPI 1730443870

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.3% of the total across 44 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. at 29.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,903, 5.2 times the $369 reported in 2019. Among psychosomatic medicine clinicians in NY 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.

$2,889in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $65.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$862
Johnson & Johnson$791
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$546
AbbVie$381
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$160
Alkermes, Inc.$125
plus $24 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,78396%
Education$1074%

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.	19	$862
Johnson & Johnson	9	$791
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	5	$546
AbbVie(2 entities)	7	$381
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$160
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$125
Lundbeck LLC	1	$24

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

$2,889 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 30 psychosomatic medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,428

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
Duloxetine Hcl	22	$1,903
Ziprasidone Hcl	38	$790
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	50	$560
Doxepin Hcl	29	$482
Mirtazapine	16	$473
Aripiprazole	14	$364
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	24	$351
Trazodone Hcl	66	$238
Quetiapine Fumarate	24	$220
Amitriptyline Hcl	14	$216
Olanzapine	11	$197
Haloperidol	23	$187
Zolpidem Tartrate	25	$144
Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide	13	$91
Paroxetine Hcl	13	$88

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychosomatic medicine in Bronx

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Zorica Filipovic-JewellNew York$653
David KrakowNew York$644
Diana PunkoNew York$572
Arkady BarenboimBrooklyn$561
Guitelle St VictorEast Meadow$517
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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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