Has Mahipal Chaudhri, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $465 in general payments to Mahipal Chaudhri, MD across 19 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 Mahipal Chaudhri, 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 Mahipal Chaudhri, 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.

Mahipal Chaudhri, MD

Psychiatry · Santee, CANPI 1982799490

Payments from drug & device makers

$465in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $24.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$205
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$76
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$37
Bausch Health US, LLC$36
Harmony Biosciences LLC$30
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$18
plus $64 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$465100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	4	$205
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$76
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$37
Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$36
Harmony Biosciences LLC	1	$30
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$18
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$17
Eisai Inc.	1	$15
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Neuronetics, Inc.	1	$3

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.

SPRAVATO$148

How this compares

$465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,954 psychiatry providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,397

Medicare patients

Services billed

504

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
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	109	$4,559
Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate	14	$3,424
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium	18	$3,269
Quetiapine Fumarate	112	$2,631
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	122	$2,390
Atomoxetine Hcl	14	$2,357
Aripiprazole	37	$2,038
Dextroamphetamine-AmphetamineDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine	48	$1,578
Desvenlafaxine Succinate ErDesvenlafaxine Succinate	19	$1,311
Methylphenidate Hcl	49	$1,280
Duloxetine Hcl	105	$1,263
Escitalopram Oxalate	151	$1,250
Clonazepam	126	$1,176
Trazodone Hcl	148	$1,081
Ziprasidone Hcl	24	$1,059

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Santee

Yashwant ChaudhriSantee$1.6M
Elly LeeIrvine$49.8M
Daniel ChuehOrange$17.9M
Eric ChavezSan Diego$15.5M
Lara ShirikjianTorrance$12.6M
John DuffySanta Ana$12M
Marina BusselPlaya Vista$12M
Sherry SoefjeOceanside$11.9M
Steven MacinaHuntington Beach$11.1M
Wakelin McNeelRosemead$11M

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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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