Sumedha Sonde, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Dalton, GANPI 1750886339
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $83.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$318
- Boehringer Ingelheim$278
- United Therapeutics Corporation$146
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$132
- Viatris Specialty LLC$117
- plus $790 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5458%
- Food & beverage$1,80428%
- Education$4,08063%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $4,648 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 2 | $318 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $278 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 5 | $146 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $132 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 5 | $117 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $102 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| GSK | 4 | $82 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $69 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Amgen | 3 | $53 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$6,429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 365 pulmonary disease 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 60 | $42,718 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 40 | $15,761 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 21 | $13,478 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 22 | $10,838 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 18 | $8,587 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 104 | $3,559 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 16 | $3,174 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 16 | $3,098 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 13 | $2,355 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 12 | $2,210 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 11 | $1,596 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 43 | $265 |
| Prednisone | 47 | $65 |
| Azithromycin | 23 | $58 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $58 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $82 | $69,317122 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimCombivent Respimat | $278 | $8,58718 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $15 | $3,09816 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 55th percentile of 365 pulmonary disease providers in Georgia.
Other pulmonary disease in Dalton
- Maria MascoloRincon$2.7M
- Chad MillerAustell$2M
- Amy CaseAustell$1.5M
- Srihari VeeraraghavanAtlanta$1.3M
- Jose MedinaValdosta$1.3M
- Micah FisherAtlanta$1.2M
- Frances LeeAtlanta$1.2M
- Vijay PatelNewnan$1.1M
- Lawrence McDermottSavannah$963K
- Ngozika OrjiokeEast Point$846K
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.