Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

NIRMAL TEJA SUNKARA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1396908141
CMS profile
153737
Location
ORANGE, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$15,260.40

  • Reported across 201 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$1,059.15

17 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $737.89 16
Travel and Lodging $321.26 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $548.01 8
Abbott Laboratories $325.49 5
Medtronic, Inc. $160.76 3
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $24.89 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $6,704.23 63
PY2019 $3,537.96 62
PY2020 $257.58 8
PY2021 $1,541.87 19
PY2022 $632.20 15
PY2023 $1,527.41 17
PY2024 $1,059.15 17

Payment records · PY2024 (17)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $149.73 01/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125046275 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $123.25 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125046277 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $11.68 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125046279 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $21.00 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125046281 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.83 11/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125046283 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $24.89 10/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101390618 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $75.29 01/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776897 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $13.59 01/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776877 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $321.26 04/26/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776911 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $20.11 07/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776963 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $26.36 08/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776969 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $29.37 10/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776979 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $26.44 10/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138776983 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $35.59 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138777029 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $18.06 04/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119302237 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $138.63 07/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119302239 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $4.07 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119302241 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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