Sudheer Gurram, MD
Internal Medicine · Evansville, INNPI 1336201243
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 180 payments — averaging $17.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$440
- AstraZeneca$436
- GSK$307
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$291
- Bayer$190
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$125
- plus $1K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,203100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 22 | $440 |
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $436 |
| GSK | 21 | $307 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 16 | $291 |
| Bayer | 2 | $190 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $122 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $117 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $81 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $73 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $58 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Merck | 3 | $46 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $42 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 2 | $38 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $27 |
| Novartis | 2 | $27 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Covis Pharma GmbH | 1 | $19 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| CMP Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $13 |
| Kaleo, 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.
- Kerendia$128
How this compares
$3,203 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 67 | $61,326 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 44 | $48,804 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 30 | $34,981 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 22 | $19,040 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 17 | $10,907 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 12 | $8,620 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 11 | $7,990 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 15 | $7,485 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 11 | $6,447 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 28 | $6,037 |
| Clonidine | 35 | $4,874 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 32 | $3,005 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 102 | $2,739 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 26 | $2,397 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 88 | $2,360 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $117 | $61,32667 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $73 | $48,80444 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $58 | $34,98130 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $307 | $25,48733 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $33 | $10,90717 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $81 | $9,95828 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 85th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
Other internal medicine in Evansville
- Robert BuynakValparaiso$24.2M
- Mohammed AllawNewburgh$3.6M
- Raj VuppalanchiIndianapolis$3.4M
- Phillip TothIndianapolis$3.2M
- George CornettFranklin$1.3M
- Ajita NarayanLafayette$951K
- Abhinav SinghGreenwood$738K
- Georgiann LinnemeierIndianapolis$692K
- Wa'el BakdashAnderson$625K
- Rita SchmidSouth Bend$599K
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.