Chaitanya Malempati, DO
Sports Medicine · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1639482755
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $83,913 of the $131,545 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $52,383, more than ten times the $3,509 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in KY 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 279 payments — averaging $471.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$125K
- Stryker$3K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$3K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$313
- Xiros Inc$159
- DJO, LLC$137
- plus $838 from 16 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $8182.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Smith+Nephew$57K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,34112%
- Speaking & faculty fees$83,91364%
- Travel & lodging$16,93513%
- Food & beverage$12,2049%
- Education$2,1532%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 185 | $124,521 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 43 | $3,016 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 6 | $2,560 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $313 |
| Xiros Inc | 2 | $159 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $137 |
| Amgen | 9 | $128 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $110 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $77 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $55 |
| Vertex | 2 | $41 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $13 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $9 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$20,698
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$20,589
- SPATIAL FRAME$14,805
- FAST-FIX$5,284
- NOVOSTITCH$3,545
- ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,733
- Healicoil$2,487
- Firstpass$2,021
- Suturefix$1,660
- BIOSURE REGENESORB$1,660
- Fast-Fix 360$1,660
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$1,660
- PINPOINT System$1,660
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$1,504
- Bioraptor Knotless$1,380
- Q-FIX Hip$1,380
- Q-FIX$1,380
- SPEEDLOCK HIP$1,380
- Regeneten$1,378
- ULTRABUTTON$1,247
How this compares
$131,545 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 59 sports medicine providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 131 | $805 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 63 | $643 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 84 | $572 |
| Methylprednisolone | 48 | $262 |
| Prednisone | 20 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Bowling Green
- Abigail DebuskBowling Green$15K
- Umar KhanBowling Green$681
- Ryan KruppLouisville$803K
- Howard SchertzingerFlorence$147K
- Scott MairLexington$59K
- Austin StoneLexington$15K
- Kyle ParishPaducah$10K
- Benjamin WilsonLexington$9K
- Nicholas Kenneyla Grange$8K
- Jerrod FelderLexington$6K
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.