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Suvarna Guvvala

Internal Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1033538947

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,289in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $24.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$469
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$368
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$191
  • AstraZeneca$174
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$150
  • Johnson & Johnson$143
  • plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,83486%
  • Education$1565%
  • Other$2999%

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

$3,289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban22$15,079
Abiraterone Acetate12$10,032
VenclextaVenetoclax12$9,681
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl25$648
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen21$597
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate13$269
Dexamethasone16$250
Anastrozole24$172
Potassium Chloride15$64
Prednisone14$63

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
PfizerEliquis$48$15,07922 claims
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLCAbiraterone Acetate$21$10,03212 claims
AbbVieVenclexta$50$9,68112 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 80th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.

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