Meera Chitlur
Pediatrics · Detroit, MINPI 1952341844
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $154,559 of the $235,503 with a category attached, or 65.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 41.8% of the total. Among pediatrics clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 198 payments — averaging $1189.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$98K
- Sanofi$30K
- Novo Nordisk Health Care AG$24K
- Bioverativ Therapeutics Inc.$23K
- HEMA Biologics, LLC$19K
- Sobi, Inc$8K
- plus $34K from 15 others
Across 374 payments — averaging $2820.46 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$711K
- Novo Nordisk AS$155K
- Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.$51K
- Genentech, Inc.$44K
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32K
- HEMA Biologics, LLC$21K
- plus $41K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$154,55966%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,03411%
- Grants$22,62610%
- Travel & lodging$27,68112%
- Food & beverage$5,4772%
- Education$1270%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 66 | $98,436 |
| Sanofi | 19 | $29,690 |
| Novo Nordisk Health Care AG | 7 | $23,635 |
| Bioverativ Therapeutics Inc. | 17 | $23,058 |
| HEMA Biologics, LLC | 28 | $18,721 |
| Sobi, Inc | 5 | $8,117 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $7,802 |
| Kedrion Biopharma, Inc. | 7 | $7,392 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $4,863 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $3,567 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $2,756 |
| F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG | 1 | $2,280 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $1,849 |
| Bayer | 3 | $1,290 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 7 | $1,160 |
| Butterfly Network, Inc. | 1 | $346 |
| Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Spark Therapeutics, 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.
How this compares
$235,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,473 pediatrics providers in Michigan.
Other pediatrics in Detroit
- Madhvi RajpurkarDetroit$162K
- Wanda Whitten-ShurneyDetroit$152K
- Marcus DegrawDetroit$62K
- Nedim CakanDetroit$55K
- Norris PolkDetroit$32K
- Lynn SmithermanDetroit$25K
- Yaddanapudi RavindranathDetroit$11K
- Esperanza Font-MontgomeryDetroit$5K
- Itemad BadrDetroit$5K
- Deepa Soundara RajanDetroit$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.