Bindu Umapathi
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Chevy Chase, MDNPI 1790009413
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.8% of the total across 68 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $695 and has fallen 90.5% since, to $66 in 2025.
Across 68 payments — averaging $38.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$460
- Intuitive Surgical$392
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$285
- Medrobotics Inc.$178
- Boston Scientific$150
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$149
- plus $973 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,45495%
- Education$622%
- Gifts$723%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $460 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 14 | $392 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 15 | $285 |
| Medrobotics Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $150 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $147 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $144 |
| THD America, Inc. | 2 | $102 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $76 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $49 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| BD | 1 | $37 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Orphalan Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$2,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 29 colon & rectal surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 44 | $797 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 35 | $774 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 13 | $720 |
| Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone | 19 | $533 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 18 | $413 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $102 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 29 | $98 |
| Metronidazole | 32 | $86 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 19 | $85 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Chevy Chase
- Irina BernescuBaltimore$93K
- Bashar SafarBaltimore$26K
- Joshua WolfBaltimore$24K
- Philip FerrisBaltimore$11K
- Ivane ChuaTowson$10K
- Valerie Cabrera LeonTowson$10K
- Joseph DiroccoTowson$8K
- James ZaluckiEllicott City$5K
- James DuncanBethesda$5K
- Chady AtallahBaltimore$4K
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.