Has Chandra Dasari, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $829 in general payments to Chandra Dasari, MD across 16 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 Chandra Dasari, 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 Chandra Dasari, 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.

Chandra Dasari, MD

Hospitalist · Little Rock, ARNPI 1629366471

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 16 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 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among hospitalist clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$829in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $51.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$187
Stryker$165
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$147
Celltrion USA Inc.$139
AbbVie$59
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$48
plus $84 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$829100%

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
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	3	$187
Stryker	1	$165
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	1	$147
Celltrion USA Inc.	2	$139
AbbVie	3	$59
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$48
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$44
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	1	$20

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

$829 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 125 hospitalist providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$22,488

Medicare patients

130

Services billed

251

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
Metoprolol Succinate	11	$196

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Little Rock

Abul KamalLittle Rock$417
Tulika PandeyLittle Rock$397
Matthew LawLittle Rock$339
Tyler KingLittle Rock$303
Bilal SadiqLittle Rock$221
Khalid SawalhaLittle Rock$218
Heather BorchertLittle Rock$157
Alexander NavarroHot Springs$2K
Jonathan HoltJonesboro$1K
Michael BoldingFayetteville$1K

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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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