Irfan Chhipa, MD
Sports Medicine · Egg Harbor Township, NJNPI 1982962833
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,366, 5.1 times the $267 reported in 2019.
Across 77 payments — averaging $56.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trice Medical, Inc.$887
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$767
- Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc.$696
- Zimmer Biomet$687
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$328
- Bioventus LLC$302
- plus $674 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$501%
- Travel & lodging$1,59137%
- Food & beverage$2,10148%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 3 | $887 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $767 |
| Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc. | 2 | $696 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $687 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 25 | $328 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $205 |
| Amgen | 13 | $173 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $51 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Stryker | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 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.
How this compares
$4,341 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 221 sports medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 104 | $177 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Egg Harbor Township
- Bradford TuckerEgg Harbor Township$13K
- Sean McMillanBurlington$1.8M
- Nicholas JarmonFreehold$277K
- Thomas YoumEnglewood$221K
- Stephen HuntCedar Knolls$76K
- David PorterHackensack$63K
- Francis AlbertaHackensack$61K
- Nathan HolmesSewell$56K
- Steven FreyWoodbury$55K
- Lon CastleFranklin Lakes$54K
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.