RxDoctor Payments Data

Subhas Sitaula, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Ocean Springs, MSNPI 1104175546

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.2%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 35.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,957 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $762 in 2025.

$10,017in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 308 payments — averaging $32.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$4K
  • GSK$2K
  • Pulmonx Corporation$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$698
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$470
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$283
  • plus $2K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,40624%
  • Food & beverage$5,02850%
  • Education$2,58426%

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

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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.

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

$10,017 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 101 pulmonary disease providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,367
Medicare patients
434
Services billed
1,233

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil19$445,833
OfevNintedanib Esylate26$323,024
UptraviSelexipag13$315,016
OpsumitMacitentan23$283,385
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter236$187,438
AdempasRiociguat11$149,129
GlassiaAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor12$89,679
TezspireTezepelumab-Ekko18$71,808
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol81$65,064
Tadalafil49$43,279
NucalaMepolizumab11$41,298
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol72$32,192
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide24$25,187
Pirfenidone29$24,442
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr45$22,716

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$470$598,40136 claims
Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat$283$367,77886 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Nucala, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$1,718$283,644364 claims
AstraZenecaTezspire, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Daliresp$232$155,582151 claims
BayerAdempas$38$149,12911 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Glassia$89$89,67912 claims
MerckDulera$65$3,96911 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 101 pulmonary disease providers in Mississippi.

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