Chandra Bhati, MD
Transplant Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1871828160
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $108,866 of the $167,760 with a category attached, or 64.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $53,707, more than ten times the $292 reported in 2019.
Across 223 payments — averaging $752.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$154K
- Transmedics, Inc.$9K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$4K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$476
- Medtronic$216
- Organox Ltd$180
- plus $374 from 5 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $16,465 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.
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$60K
- Transmedics, Inc.$38K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,2505%
- Speaking & faculty fees$17,15010%
- Travel & lodging$22,70014%
- Food & beverage$10,7866%
- Education$108,86665%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 201 | $153,699 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 3 | $9,149 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $3,666 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 3 | $476 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $216 |
| Organox Ltd | 2 | $180 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $123 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$145,279
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$9,149
- DA VINCI SP$5,150
- GIAPREZA$3,550
- DAVINCI XI$750
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$450
- METRA$154
- NULOJIX$123
- LIVTENCITY$119
How this compares
Too few transplant surgery providers in Marylandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other transplant surgery in Baltimore
- Robert MontgomeryBaltimore$159K
- Jonathan BrombergBaltimore$38K
- Jospeph ScaleaBaltimore$8K
- Russell WessonBaltimore$5K
- Raphael MeierBaltimore$5K
- Benjamin PhilosopheBaltimore$5K
- Saad MalikBaltimore$2K
- Daniel MalufBaltimore$2K
- Jordan PydaBaltimore$871
- Niraj DesaiBaltimore$624
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.