Gautham Chitragari, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Rochester Hills, MINPI 1538546676
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,000 of the $11,678 with a category attached, or 77.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,661 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $645 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $271.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medtronic$997
- THD America, Inc.$620
- Johnson & Johnson$296
- AbbVie$125
- TELA Bio, Inc.$106
- plus $192 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,25311%
- Food & beverage$1,42512%
- Education$9,00077%
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 | 9 | $9,341 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $997 |
| THD America, Inc. | 2 | $620 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $296 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Stryker | 2 | $69 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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
$11,678 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 72 colon & rectal surgery providers in Michigan.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 44 | $684 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 19 | $446 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 23 | $284 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $252 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 15 | $228 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $166 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $136 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $107 |
| Metronidazole | 16 | $83 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Rochester Hills
- Jasneet BhullarRochester Hills$58K
- Kenneth BarkRochester Hills$50K
- Murad Bani HaniRochester Hills$18K
- Jon HainRochester Hills$3K
- Raymond LandesRochester Hills$2K
- Yongjin LeeRochester Hills$1K
- Amanda McClureYpsilanti$150K
- Anthony SenagoreSaginaw$126K
- Robert ClearyYpsilanti$121K
- Melissa ChangYpsilanti$82K
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.