Who Paid My Doc
Swathy Puthalapattu
Pulmonary Disease Tucson, AZ Medical Doctor
NPI 1447443486 CMS profile 1372401
3601 S 6Th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85723
General payments
$4,409
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$59,248
Through program year 2024, Swathy Puthalapattu of Tucson, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,409 across 10 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $59,248 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 65th percentile of Pulmonary Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
2 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | General | $4,169 | 9 | |
| 2023 | General | $240 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Swathy Puthalapattu
- Pulmonary Disease median
- Middle half of Pulmonary Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Swathy Puthalapattu were reported at $0. Among 8,914 Pulmonary Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $500 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,893.
Show as a table
| Year | Swathy Puthalapattu | Pulmonary Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $377 | $109–$1,340 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $230 | $56–$907 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $269 | $68–$1,072 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $390 | $100–$1,457 | $149 |
| 2023 | $240 | $419 | $114–$1,659 | $160 |
| 2024 | $4,169 | $476 | $123–$1,818 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $500 | $124–$1,893 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 12 drugsPart D claims
288
Drug cost
$219,461
Branded share of claims
72.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofev Nintedanib Esylate | Brand | 12 | $153,955 | |
| Stiolto Respimat Tiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | Brand | 43 | $27,238 | |
| Spiriva Respimat Tiotropium Bromide | Brand | 31 | $19,386 | |
| Incruse Ellipta Umeclidinium Bromide | Brand | 13 | $8,154 | |
| Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol | Brand | 11 | $4,198 | |
| Arnuity Ellipta Fluticasone Furoate | Brand | 12 | $3,157 | |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa Albuterol Sulfate | Brand | 86 | $2,318 | |
| Fluticasone Propionate | Generic | 15 | $378 | |
| Montelukast Sodium | Generic | 19 | $311 | |
| Azelastine Hcl | Generic | 11 | $155 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,233 Part D prescribers listed as Pulmonary Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
10 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.