Jorge Chahla, MD
Sports Medicine · Munster, INNPI 1750891636
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 614 payments — averaging $1756.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$961K
- Arthrex$55K
- Linvatec Corporation$21K
- Overture Orthopaedics$14K
- Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$7K
- Synthes GmbH$7K
- plus $12K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$314,72934%
- Speaking & faculty fees$449,84949%
- Grants$20,0002%
- Travel & lodging$97,38311%
- Food & beverage$18,7482%
- Education$16,1552%
- Entertainment$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 485 | $961,326 |
| Arthrex | 16 | $55,481 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 25 | $20,976 |
| Overture Orthopaedics | 2 | $13,759 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 3 | $7,438 |
| Synthes GmbH | 7 | $7,310 |
| Medwest Associates | 8 | $4,334 |
| Stryker | 23 | $2,076 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 15 | $1,672 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 5 | $1,590 |
| Vericel Corporation | 5 | $919 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 4 | $693 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $545 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $243 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $31 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SPATIAL FRAME$240,003
- Q-FIX$138,210
- Biosure$121,028
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$116,033
- NOVOSTITCH$89,209
- Healicoil$80,041
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$67,667
- CAP-FIX$61,159
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$41,883
- Acufex$39,801
- Fast-Fix 360$39,648
- MICRORAPTOR$34,299
- GTS System$32,200
- FAST-FIX$31,421
- ULTRABUTTON$31,133
- Meniscal Root Repair System$29,143
- BIOSURE REGENESORB$27,658
- TRUNAV$25,441
- FIRSTPASS MINI$23,866
- Endobutton$21,962
How this compares
$1,078,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 sports medicine providers in Indiana.
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 | 204 | $471 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $120 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Munster
- Nikhil PandhiMunster$20K
- Omar PerezMunster$11K
- Jeffrey StaronMunster$3K
- Stephen WrightFort Wayne$297K
- Sean CallowayGreenwood$130K
- Ryan NixonGreenwood$62K
- Tyler McCarrollCarmel$60K
- Nedal AlkhatibIndianapolis$51K
- Stephen ShivelyGreenfield$51K
- Jason HixElkhart$46K
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.