Has Neal Chawla received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $65,968 in general payments to Neal Chawla across 192 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 Neal Chawla 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 Neal Chawla 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.

Neal Chawla

Hematology & Oncology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1669906665

Payments from drug & device makers

$65,968in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 192 payments — averaging $343.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Coherus Oncology, Inc.$59K
Bayer$1K
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$538
Aadi Bioscience, Inc.$422
Astellas Pharma US Inc$419
AstraZeneca$387
plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,00115%
Speaking & faculty fees$240%
Food & beverage$5,17979%
Education$3736%

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
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	7	$59,474
Bayer	7	$1,169
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	11	$538
Aadi Bioscience, Inc.	9	$422
Astellas Pharma US Inc	13	$419
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	15	$387
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	16	$324
Incyte Corporation	12	$313
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	16	$301
Merck	9	$244
AbbVie	5	$219
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$195
Exelixis Inc.	1	$175
Sanofi	3	$165
Novartis	7	$163
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	4	$137
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$129
Caris MPI, Inc.	2	$110
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$110
Pfizer	3	$91
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$83
Gilead	1	$81
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$55
Genmab U.S., Inc.	2	$54
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	2	$51
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$46
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$43
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	2	$42
Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.	2	$40
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	1	$35
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$34
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$34
Organon	1	$33
Johnson & Johnson	1	$28
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$28
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.	2	$25
Invivyd Inc	1	$25
Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$23
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$23
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	1	$22
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$22
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$21
Sobi, Inc	1	$17
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	1	$15

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.

Vitrakvi$1,001
FYARRO$255
Cabometyx$175
TAZVERIK$146
Elahere$125

How this compares

$65,968 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,363 hematology & oncology providers in California.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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