Akhil Chhatre, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Baltimore, MDNPI 1861665952
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $156,150 of the $168,909 with a category attached, or 92.4%. Stryker accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $70,283 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $818 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 169 payments — averaging $999.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$167K
- Nevro Corp.$837
- Boston Scientific$255
- Medtronic$251
- Hydrocision, Inc.$77
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$48
- plus $117 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$156,15092%
- Travel & lodging$10,3216%
- Food & beverage$2,4381%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 144 | $167,325 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $837 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $255 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $251 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $45 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MULTIGEN 2$114,130
- VERTAPLEX$47,150
- PCD$45,775
- SPINEJACK$35,921
- AUTOPLEX$32,725
- AVAFLEX$32,253
- SPINEPLEX$31,025
- IVAS$22,575
- NA$12,300
- CORTOSS$11,700
- OPTABLATE$3,750
- mild Device Kit$635
- DISCMONITOR$600
- Senza$133
- Vyrsa V1$133
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$133
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$120
- IVS - RF CANNULAE/NEEDLES$118
- ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$118
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$111
How this compares
$168,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 202 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Maryland.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 16 | $18,529 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $599 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 32 | $566 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $383 |
| Baclofen | 13 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Baltimore
- Ronald ShinBaltimore$19K
- Mustafa BroachwalaBaltimore$17K
- Gerard LimerickBaltimore$12K
- Marisa FlavinBaltimore$5K
- Tae Hwan ChungBaltimore$3K
- Edward SorianoBaltimore$3K
- Mariam KeramatiBaltimore$2K
- Scott BrownBaltimore$2K
- Eric BuchnerBaltimore$2K
- Paige HarrisonBaltimore$2K
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.