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 BASAULA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine

NPI
1861970295
CMS profile
5206345
Location
SHREVEPORT, LA

General Payments · PY2018–2021

$1,217.99

  • Reported across 62 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2021

$286.72

13 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

PY2021 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $286.72 13

By paying entity

PY2021 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $61.82 4
PY2019 $447.92 21
PY2020 $421.53 24
PY2021 $286.72 13

Payment records · PY2021 (13)

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

Program year 2021 201820192020 Record-level detail is published for PY2021; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
AbbVie Inc. $24.18 10/28/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 794000921 CMS
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $34.31 02/17/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 783109431 CMS
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $40.68 05/19/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 783109433 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.90 02/08/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 829956585 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $22.85 03/10/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 829342387 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.82 05/13/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 830172265 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.73 07/01/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 829593783 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.11 09/10/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 829887769 CMS
Biogen, Inc. $24.98 02/16/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 827782191 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $15.37 02/25/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 763372344 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $17.74 03/17/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 783607139 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $13.63 02/13/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 803173599 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $22.42 03/12/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 788767529 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2021_P01232026_01102026.csv

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