Vinita Sudhakar
Hialeah, FLNPI 1548841174
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,542 of the $1,828 with a category attached, or 84.3%. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 72 payments — averaging $25.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$204
- AstraZeneca$190
- Seagen Inc.$179
- Merck$157
- Sanofi$143
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$128
- plus $828 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,54284%
- Education$28716%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $204 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $190 |
| Seagen Inc. | 2 | $179 |
| Merck | 7 | $157 |
| Sanofi | 6 | $143 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $128 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $127 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $118 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Novartis | 3 | $70 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| GSK | 2 | $64 |
| Bayer | 2 | $47 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 23 | $285 |
| Letrozole | 11 | $152 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.