Has Vijay Nuthakki, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,528 in general payments to Vijay Nuthakki, MD across 49 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Vijay Nuthakki, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Vijay Nuthakki, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Vijay Nuthakki, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Indianapolis, INNPI 1013133222

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,528in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $133.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$2K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Boston Scientific$795
On Target Laboratories, Inc$516
Davol Inc.$303
Medtronic$161
plus $303 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5008%
Travel & lodging$3,35451%
Food & beverage$1,67426%
Education$1,00015%

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	10	$2,499
Zimmer Biomet	18	$1,951
Boston Scientific	10	$795
On Target Laboratories, Inc	2	$516
Davol Inc.	2	$303
Medtronic	2	$161
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$132
Johnson & Johnson	3	$122
Covidien LP	1	$49

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

$6,528 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 127 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$65,152

Medicare patients

122

Services billed

247

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Indianapolis

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David HeimansohnIndianapolis$1.5M
Kenneth KeslerIndianapolis$298K
Andrew BarksdaleIndianapolis$158K
Joel CorveraIndianapolis$145K
Manesh ParikshakIndianapolis$61K
Ashish PulikalIndianapolis$36K
Giorgio ZanottiIndianapolis$34K
Nakul ValsangkarIndianapolis$33K
Karen RiegerIndianapolis$28K

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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.

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