Silu Lu, MD
Neurology · Atlanta, GANPI 1578050399
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $557 of the $697 with a category attached, or 79.9%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for neurology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $1,471.
Across 22 payments — averaging $31.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$124
- AstraZeneca$112
- SK Life Science, Inc.$99
- Sanofi$75
- Livanova USA, Inc.$62
- Amgen$52
- plus $171 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$406%
- Food & beverage$55780%
- Education$10014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $112 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $75 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $44 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 506 neurology providers in Georgia.
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 neurology in Atlanta
- Joash LazarusAtlanta$1.1M
- Jeffrey EnglishAtlanta$749K
- Frank BerensonAtlanta$527K
- Julio FlaminiAtlanta$501K
- Douglas StuartAtlanta$493K
- Robert GilbertAtlanta$412K
- Lawrence SeidenAtlanta$272K
- Jacqueline RosenthalAtlanta$241K
- Ben ThrowerAtlanta$203K
- Jaime Hatcher MartinAtlanta$165K
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.