Vivek Nanda Venkatesh, MD

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner Hospital · Kenner, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner, LLC
• Ochsner St Anne General Hospital Hospital · Raceland, LA · listed as St Anne General Hospital
• St Charles Parish Hospital Hospital · Luling, LA

Colleagues at Ochsner Clinic LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2842 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Katherine Broussard, PA-C Physician Assistant · Jefferson, LA
• Dr. David Allen Brown, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Nona K Epstein, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Sydney Forsythe, MPAS Physician Assistant · Jefferson, LA
• Peter Josef Goertz, MD Psychiatry Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Arthur G Grant III, MD Interventional Cardiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Katie Hollingsworth, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Jefferson, LA
• Rakita Reeves Julien, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Gretna, LA
• Dr. Victor W Lucas, MD Pediatric Cardiology Physician · Mandeville, LA
• Dr. Linda C McElveen, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Slidell, LA
• Darren Patrick Ruiz, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Slidell, LA
• Timothy Joseph Schneider, MD Otolaryngology Physician · Slidell, LA

Other providers in Columbia

• Corinne Grace Vaccaro, APRN

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1851976690

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Titilayo Vanriel, APRN

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1750109864

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Vivek Varughese

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1558098475

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Bethany Ann Vega, MD

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1700638889

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Peyton Vickers

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1770151854

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Rebecca Russell Vincent

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1669252292

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Mrs. Callie Floyd Vinson

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1578441978

  Student / training record Columbia, SC

• Brooke Gigot Violette

  Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1679426662

  Student / training record Columbia, SC