Vineeth-Joseph Sankoorikal, MD
Hospitalist · Jackson, MSNPI 1396199840
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 23 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for hospitalist clinicians in MS, where the typical reported total is $523.
Across 23 payments — averaging $24.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$107
- Novo Nordisk$100
- Viatris Specialty LLC$79
- AstraZeneca$69
- Inari Medical, Inc.$38
- AbbVie$34
- plus $142 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$569100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 5 | $107 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $100 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 3 | $79 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $69 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $33 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 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.
- Ozempic$100
How this compares
$569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 102 hospitalist providers in Mississippi.
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 | 16 | $12,680 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 18 | $11,586 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 16 | $10,043 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 12 | $1,086 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 101 | $823 |
| Potassium Chloride | 29 | $748 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 19 | $651 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 28 | $578 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 43 | $491 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 62 | $448 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 83 | $447 |
| Losartan Potassium | 31 | $402 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 21 | $337 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 18 | $299 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 17 | $291 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Jackson
- Kenneth BallJackson$3K
- Frederick AsherJackson$3K
- Bharat MalhotraJackson$3K
- Joshua JeterJackson$2K
- Rahat NoorJackson$2K
- Mary HittJackson$2K
- Pradeep BathinaJackson$1K
- Seema McKenzieJackson$1K
- Navkiran JagdevJackson$1K
- David RiemJackson$1K
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.