Has Dinesh Chinthagada, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,518 in general payments to Dinesh Chinthagada, MD across 70 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 Dinesh Chinthagada, 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 Dinesh Chinthagada, 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.

Dinesh Chinthagada, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Evergreen Park, ILNPI 1699702753

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 70 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 52.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $633, 9.3 times the $68 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $2,254.

$2,518in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $35.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$495
Boston Scientific$322
Nalu Medical, Inc.$132
Medtronic$61
AstraZeneca$45
plus $146 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,518100%

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
Abbott	42	$1,317
Vertos Medical, Inc.	4	$495
Boston Scientific	9	$322
Nalu Medical, Inc.	4	$132
Medtronic	2	$61
AstraZeneca	1	$45
AbbVie	3	$45
UCB, Inc.	2	$42
Vertex	1	$27
Bioventus LLC	1	$17
International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc	1	$15

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

$2,518 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 93 interventional pain medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$53,861

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

663

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	152	$4,995
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	151	$3,236
Gabapentin	116	$1,552
Oxycodone Hcl	84	$1,337
Celecoxib	21	$1,182
Diclofenac Potassium	32	$753
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	49	$546
Tramadol Hcl	56	$461
Baclofen	16	$318
Pregabalin	24	$301
Meloxicam	65	$257
Methocarbamol	12	$212
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$186
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$141
Methylprednisolone	15	$128

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Timothy LubenowChicago$556K
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Ramsin BenyaminBloomington$32K
Adam YoungChicago$29K
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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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