Vishal Devarkonda, MD
Internal Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1932620663
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $24.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$459
- AstraZeneca$295
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$278
- Novartis$180
- CSL Behring$125
- AbbVie$122
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,13083%
- Education$44717%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 19 | $459 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 11 | $295 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 11 | $278 |
| Novartis | 9 | $180 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $122 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $102 |
| GSK | 5 | $93 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $80 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Merck | 3 | $63 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $49 |
| Geron Corporation | 2 | $46 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 2 | $39 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Invivyd Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Legend Biotech USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Secura Bio, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Emmaus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Sobi, 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.
- HEMGENIX$125
How this compares
$2,577 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $890 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $404 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $308 |
| Prednisone | 14 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Shreveport
- Deepika RallaShreveport$261K
- Maliha AgloriaShreveport$181K
- Bharat SachdevaShreveport$165K
- Rajan KhannaShreveport$59K
- Ishak MansiShreveport$53K
- Wendell WallShreveport$25K
- Attila BaloghShreveport$18K
- Ammar AlqaidShreveport$18K
- William SmithNew Orleans$50.5M
- Robert JeanfreauMetairie$13.4M
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.