Has David Chesler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $205 in general payments to David Chesler, MD across 4 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 David Chesler, 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 David Chesler, 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.

David Chesler, MD

Internal Medicine · Charlottesville, VANPI 1720090335

Payments from drug & device makers

$205in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $51.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$143
Abbott$48
Amgen$14

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$19193%
Education$147%

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
Medtronic	1	$143
Abbott	2	$48
Amgen	1	$14

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.

SYNCHROMED$143

How this compares

$205 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$323,007

Medicare patients

626

Services billed

4,407

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
EliquisApixaban	834	$349,011
JardianceEmpagliflozin	150	$58,291
TrulicityDulaglutide	71	$50,217
Abilify MaintenaAripiprazole	16	$39,400
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	79	$33,211
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	83	$32,836
XareltoRivaroxaban	63	$29,552
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol	77	$29,317
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase	31	$26,924
Atorvastatin Calcium	1,220	$21,177
LinzessLinaclotide	35	$21,159
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate	24	$18,176
XifaxanRifaximin	16	$17,789
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	26	$16,504
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr	37	$15,964

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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