Charles Chiu
Infectious Disease · San Francisco, CANPI 1598797268
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,105 of the $13,449 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,110 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $54 in 2024. Among infectious disease clinicians in CA 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.
Across 20 payments — averaging $672.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cepheid$8K
- Abbott$5K
Across 3 payments — averaging $320,833 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.
- Abbott$963K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,10575%
- Travel & lodging$3,12023%
- Food & beverage$2242%
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.
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.
- GENEXPERT$7,980
- Architect system$2,795
- Architect$1,665
How this compares
$13,449 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 856 infectious disease providers in California.
Other infectious disease in San Francisco
- Shawn HasslerSan Francisco$433K
- Abhijit LimayeSan Francisco$152K
- Joel PalefskySan Francisco$68K
- Monica GandhiSan Francisco$60K
- Claire PomeroySacramento$2.6M
- Javeed SiddiquiRoseville$1.5M
- George SakoulasSan Diego$902K
- Arthur JengSylmar$766K
- James McKinnellTorrance$762K
- Jay GladsteinLos Angeles$657K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.