Jeffrey Chimenti, MD
Otolaryngology · Shenandoah, TXNPI 1669456133
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 59 payments — averaging $90.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spirair, Inc.$2K
- Aerin Medical Inc.$1K
- Acclarent, Inc$294
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$161
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$148
- Optinose US, Inc.$136
- plus $789 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50028%
- Food & beverage$3,84672%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spirair, Inc. | 3 | $2,390 |
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 17 | $1,428 |
| Acclarent, Inc | 4 | $294 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 6 | $161 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $148 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| GSK | 7 | $135 |
| Neurent Medical Limited | 3 | $132 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $132 |
| Intersect ENT, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $70 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $59 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $51 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $40 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SeptAlign$4,780
- VIVAER STYLUS$527
- RHINAER STYLUS$527
- TURBALIGN$370
- VivAer$150
- RhinAer$150
- Vivaer RF Stylus$149
- CoolSeal Generator$148
- TruDi Nav Cable$123
- Relieva Spinplus$123
- PROPEL$118
- Carto 3$103
How this compares
$5,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flucytosine | 25 | $77,531 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 632 | $8,747 |
| Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth | 67 | $7,501 |
| Epinephrine | 18 | $2,453 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 88 | $2,060 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 22 | $1,857 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 138 | $1,213 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 30 | $1,051 |
| Famotidine | 107 | $738 |
| Clarithromycin | 15 | $701 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 36 | $549 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 29 | $211 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $170 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 13 | $22 |
| Alprazolam | 17 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine | $40 | $2,45318 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 729 otolaryngology providers in Texas.
Other otolaryngology in Shenandoah
- Ryan NeilanShenandoah$32K
- Laurence ChuAustin$37.4M
- Mark ZafereoHouston$7.8M
- Neil GrossHouston$1.5M
- Chad McDuffieFrisco$1.5M
- Ian AlexanderBoerne$999K
- Stephen LaiHouston$968K
- Benjamin CilentoSpring$963K
- Amber LuongHouston$793K
- Jeffrey RosenbloomSan Antonio$720K
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.