Venkatesh Vaddigiri, MD
Internal Medicine · Huntington Station, NYNPI 1609802289
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 226 payments — averaging $22.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AbbVie$935
- Amgen$631
- Pfizer$440
- Johnson & Johnson$311
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$293
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,155100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 61 | $1,027 |
| AbbVie | 11 | $935 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $631 |
| Pfizer | 35 | $440 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $311 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 15 | $293 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $243 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $149 |
| Novartis | 7 | $138 |
| GSK | 8 | $133 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $125 |
| Merck | 6 | $90 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $58 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $56 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Intuity Medical Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, 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
$5,155 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
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 | 32 | $48,665 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 39 | $41,692 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 18 | $27,028 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 11 | $22,517 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 20 | $16,365 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 17 | $15,987 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 14 | $15,327 |
| VimpatLacosamide | 12 | $14,038 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 19 | $7,458 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $6,935 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 97 | $5,749 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 316 | $4,233 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 161 | $4,222 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 29 | $4,184 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 309 | $3,995 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $56 | $57,67956 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid | $440 | $51,52444 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet | $90 | $43,39338 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,027 | $22,51711 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $243 | $15,32714 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $133 | $6,93517 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $935 | $5,74997 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 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.
Other internal medicine in Huntington Station
- Helena YuNew York$50.9M
- Neha KordeNew York$21.2M
- Karen AutioNew York$18.5M
- Ingo MellinghoffNew York$16.1M
- Gopakumar IyerNew York$12.4M
- David DoveEast Hampton$12.3M
- Robert CupeloEast Syracuse$10.6M
- Patrick ReaganRochester$9.4M
- Sally LauNew York$8.4M
- Angela BrancheRochester$7.9M
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.