Has Chetan Deshpande, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,458 in general payments to Chetan Deshpande, MD across 57 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 Chetan Deshpande, 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 Chetan Deshpande, 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.

Chetan Deshpande, MD

Orthopaedic Trauma · Savannah, GANPI 1871709824

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.2%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 36.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,733 and has fallen 53.2% since, to $1,746 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $14,838.

$9,458in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $165.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$3K
Arthrex$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Team 1, LLC$1K
Johnson & Johnson$576
Bioventus LLC$110
plus $231 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,40015%
Travel & lodging$3,89841%
Food & beverage$1,59517%
Education$2,56427%

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	23	$3,436
Arthrex	5	$2,580
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$1,400
Team 1, LLC	1	$1,124
Johnson & Johnson	10	$576
Bioventus LLC	7	$110
Biocomposites Inc	1	$43
Boston Scientific	2	$34
Linvatec Corporation	1	$34
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$26
Stryker	1	$24
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$21
Amgen	1	$21
Vericel Corporation	1	$16
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$12

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

$9,458 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 28 orthopaedic trauma providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$298,362

Medicare patients

522

Services billed

3,341

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	123	$773
Oxycodone Hcl	138	$743
Celecoxib	75	$738
Diclofenac Sodium	47	$642
Meloxicam	238	$632
Gabapentin	79	$620
Doxycycline Hyclate	15	$364
Tramadol Hcl	77	$243
Methocarbamol	28	$199
Cefadroxil	25	$178
Famotidine	45	$151
Prednisone	22	$94
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	14	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic trauma in Savannah

Austin WallaceSavannah$4K
Edward WhelanSavannah$100
Bruce ZiranLawrenceville$2.4M
William TerrellMarietta$669K
James BlairAugusta$417K
Michael MaceroliAtlanta$385K
Daniel ChanMacon$253K
Daniel SchlattererAtlanta$69K
Mara SchenkerAtlanta$59K
Matthew MartellMacon$48K

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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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