Has Chintalapati Varma received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,233 in general payments to Chintalapati Varma across 24 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 Chintalapati Varma 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 Chintalapati Varma 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.

Chintalapati Varma

Surgery · San Antonio, TXNPI 1083665574

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,233in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $301.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$7K
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$174
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$140
Baxter Healthcare$120
Johnson & Johnson$88
Medtronic$31
plus $25 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2163%
Food & beverage$1,01714%
Education$6,00083%

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	16	$6,656
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$174
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$140
Baxter Healthcare	1	$120
Johnson & Johnson	1	$88
Medtronic	2	$31
Abiomed	1	$25

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

$7,233 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,830 surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$57,236

Medicare patients

Services billed

196

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
Valganciclovir Hcl	15	$5,569
Calcitriol	11	$264
Amlodipine Besylate	12	$102
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	15	$93
Duloxetine Hcl	13	$65
Hydroxyzine Hcl	12	$65
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$29
Carvedilol	11	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in San Antonio

Richard PetersonSan Antonio$323K
Joseph KaramSan Antonio$293K
Richard EnglehardtSan Antonio$229K
John PilcherSan Antonio$214K
Susannah NicholsonSan Antonio$161K
John MeterskySan Antonio$158K
Funda MericHouston$20.6M
Michael HarkinsTomball$2.7M
Lloyd StegemannCorpus Christi$1.9M
Douglas StoddardAustin$1.4M

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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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