Has Chaitanya Desai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $132,352 in general payments to Chaitanya Desai, MD across 129 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Chaitanya Desai, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Chaitanya Desai, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Chaitanya Desai, MD

Nephrology · Peoria, ILNPI 1508090234

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $108,005 of the $132,352 with a category attached, or 81.6%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lilly USA, LLC at 48.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $90,761 and has fallen 60.3% since, to $36,062 in 2025. Among nephrology clinicians in IL 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.

$132,352in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $1025.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Lilly USA, LLC$65K
Boehringer Ingelheim$62K
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$226
Abbott$167
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$33

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10,0208%
Speaking & faculty fees$108,00582%
Travel & lodging$11,3469%
Food & beverage$2,9812%

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
Lilly USA, LLC	61	$64,711
Boehringer Ingelheim	51	$62,334
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	11	$4,881
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$226
Abbott	1	$167
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$33

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.

JARDIANCE$106,438
Filspari$1,156
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$167
PROVENGE$115

How this compares

$132,352 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 524 nephrology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$195,406

Medicare patients

293

Services billed

1,397

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide	45	$100,811
Sevelamer Carbonate	39	$6,961
Hydralazine Hcl	15	$187
Losartan Potassium	11	$141
Prednisone	24	$128
Lisinopril	15	$81
Furosemide	11	$19
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other nephrology in Peoria

Timothy PfledererPeoria$46K
Myles WolfChicago$2.1M
Mohammed AhmedBolingbrook$1.1M
Anis RaufHinsdale$453K
Juan LermaEvergreen Park$351K
Stuart SpragueEvanston$337K
Suneel UdaniHinsdale$336K
Susan QuagginChicago$262K
Nicole StankusChicago$235K
Omaima DeganiGurnee$184K

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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.

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